How often do economists self-archive?

Ted Bergstrom () and Rosemarie Lavaty
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Rosemarie Lavaty: UCSB

No 2007a, University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Abstract: To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it discusses the implications of self-archiving for the pricing of subscription-based academic journals.

Keywords: open access; self-archiving; academic journals; citations; impact factor; journal prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-02-08
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