Re: Playing a little game (was Georgia State)

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

Phil Davis writes

> Jonathan Wren who reported that the likelihood of an article 
> being found freely-available at a non-publisher's website 
> increases with the journal's impact factor [2].

I like the Wren paper a lot. I read it a long time a ago, but I 
remember that Wren points out that many openly accessible papers 
are found in places suggesting that have been put up for a 
reading club and then have been left there. There is no 
self-archiving in this. And crap papers don't make it to reading 
groups. I suspect this can entirely explain the effect between 
open access access and quality as judged by impact factor of 
publishing journal.

Cheers,

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