RE: Open access and impact factor

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> Would it not be correct to assume that 'big deals' must be having the same
> 'distorting' effect?  If only 10 percent of users (let's not, for the
> moment, get into how those users are defined) don't have access via a 'big
> deal' to the journals of the biggest commercial publishers, surely those
> will also be more highly cited than those to which far fewer have access

Sure.  The difference is, you don't see people going around using enhanced
impact factor as an argument in favor of the big deal.

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Rick Anderson
rickand@unr.edu