Research Access, Impact and Assessment

Harnad, S. (2001) Research Access, Impact and Assessment. Times Higher Education Supplement, 1487 . p. 16.

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Abstract

The RAE can help hasten the freeing of access to the research literature by mandating that all UK universities self-archive all their annual refereed research in their own eprint archives. The harvesters (e.g., http://citebase.eprints.org) will provide newer and richer measures of research performance and impact with the help of citation-linking services for open archives (http://opcit.eprints.org is an international collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, jointly supported by the NSF in the US and JISC in the UK). Both the citation impact and the usage (download) impact, for the papers and the authors at UK universities and abroad, will be not only accessible but assessable continuously online by anyone who is interested, any time, instead of just in a quadrennial RAE exercise.

Item Type:	Article
Creator/Authors:	Stevan Harnad
Keywords:	open access, research assessment, rae, metrics, research impact, citations, scientometrics, webmetrics, institutional repositories, rcuk
Additional Information:	Appeared as: "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." Times Higher Educational Supplement, 18 May 2001.
Research Group:	Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Alternative Locations:	http://www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=7...
Date:	May 2001
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Performance Indicator:	EZ~01~01~13
Citations:	Google Scholar: 44
Downloads (2010):	15
ID Code:	5950
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:28
Deposited On:	19 Jun 2001 by Harnad, Stevan

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