creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: newsarticle
datestamp: 2001-07-17
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:44
metadata_visibility: show
title: Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked
ispublished: pub
subjects: archives
full_text_status: public
keywords: research access, research assessment, research impact, refereed scholarly journals, PostGutenberg Galaxy, eprint archives, electronic publishing
abstract: The RAE can help hasten the freeing of access to this literature by mandating that all UK universities self-archive all their
annual refereed research in their own eprint archives. The harvesters (e.g., http://citebase.eprints.org )
will provide newer and richer measures of "impact" with the help of citation-linking services for open archives
(http://opcit.eprints.org is an international collaboration between Southampton, Cornell and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, jointly supported by the NSF in the US and JISC in the UK). Not only the citation impact but the "hit"
impact, for both the papers and the authors at UK universities and abroad, will be not only accessible but assessable
continuously online by anyone who is interested, any time, instead of just in a quadrennial RAE exercise.
date: 2001
date_type: published
publication: Times Higher Education Supplement
volume: 1487
pagerange: 16
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2001) Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked.  [Newspaper/Magazine Article]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1683/1/thes1.html