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Scientists worldwide are increasingly publishing their research by means of “open access”, which in effect can be read, downloaded, printed, etc. without any financial, legal or technical barriers.
Interestingly, according to a study by Steve Lawrence, a successively higher percentage of open-access articles have been cited over the period 1989-1998, suggesting that this form of scholarly communication is becoming the acceptable norm within the scientific community. During February, Ms Jennifer De Beer, Department of Information Science gave a thought-provoking lecture on open access in the JS Gericke Library Auditorium. This lunchtime lecture, Scholarly publication: online or invisible, is being repeated on 17th March at 13h00 in the same venue
The graph (above) demonstrates the rise in the persentage of articles freely available online from 1989 to 1998. “Online or Invisible?” Nature, Vol. 411,No. 6837, p. 521, 2001 (http: //www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/)
For more information on Open Access publishing, please contact Matthew Syphus at tel.: 808-3946 or e-mail: mts1@sun.ac.za or Berta Els at tel.: 808-4877 or ae2@sun.ac.za.
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