Fwd: Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:29:45 -0400

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From: Charlotte Hess <hess -- syr.edu>
Date: September 21, 2009 4:00:19 PM EDT (CA)
Subject: RE: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

Elsevier's Scopus has been doing same for some time now (using Scirus).
I see what you mean about free riding on 0AIster but isn't increased
visibility and discoverability the whole point?

What I worry about is that these databases will use this as an excuse
for not indexing OA journals along with the others.
Has anyone researched this?

Charlotte Hess
Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication
Syracuse University Library
Received on Mon Sep 21 2009 - 22:52:16 BST