Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely
available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four …

One of the effects of the Internet is that the dissemination of scientific publications in a few
years has migrated to electronic formats. The basic business practices between libraries and …

The development of science is accompanied by growth of scholarly publications, primarily in
the form of articles in peer-reviewed journals. Scientific work is often evaluated through the …

Authors of scholarly papers to a large extent base the decision on where to submit their
manuscripts on the prestige of journals, taking little account of other possible factors …

It is commonly believed that researchers and students in Nigerian higher education
institutions are battling the problem of inadequate and out-of-date materials. It could be …

Reading in the 21st century networked society is no longer confined to print reading. The
printed publications were the main medium for traditional reading culture. The Internet has …

Publishers of academic journals can be seen as service providers to authors, in addition to
the traditional role of providers of research results to readers. The purpose of this study was …

Introduction: The Internet has radically changed the global availability of scholarly
publications. Today, a substantial part of the resources accessible for researchers and …

This article discusses the Cumulative Index of CAAD (CUMINCAD. SciX. net)–a digital
library set up in 1998 serving the CAAD-community as an important source of scientific …

When authors of scholarly articles decide where to submit their manuscripts for peer review
and eventual publication, they often base their choice of journals on very incomplete …