Open AccessOpen access and Scopus: A new approach to scientific visibility from the standpoint of access
Author(s) -
Miguel Sandra,
ChinchillaRodriguez Zaida,
de MoyaAnegón Félix
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1532-2890
pISSN - 1532-2882
DOI - 10.1002/asi.21532
Subject(s) - scopus , directory , visibility , metadata , scholarly communication , world wide web , sample (material) , web of science , library science , geography , computer science , information retrieval , data science , political science , medline , publishing , chemistry , meteorology , law , chromatography , operating system
The last few years have seen the emergence of several open access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can be grouped broadly into two areas referred to as gold and green roads . Several recent studies have shown how large the extent of OA is, but there have been few studies showing the impact of OA in the visibility of journals covering all scientific fields and geographical regions. This research presents a series of informative analyses providing a broad overview of the degree of proliferation of OA journals in a data sample of about 17,000 active journals indexed in Scopus. This study shows a new approach to scientific visibility from a systematic combination of four databases: Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Rights Metadata for Open Archiving
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