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Mann, F. / von Walter, B. / Hess, T. / Wigand, R.T. (2009):
Open Access Publishing in Science
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, Issue 3 (March 2009), Pages 135-139.
While the evolving information society is freely opening and sharing its diaries, social networks and source codes, it remains to be seen if the same will come true for scientific knowledge. Despite strong sympathy for the idea, scientists balk at Open Access publishing. Here we shed some light on why this is so.
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Mann, F. / von Walter, B. / Hess, T. / Wigand, R.T. (2008): Open Access Publishing in Science, in: Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, Issue 3 (March 2009), p. 135-139.
Florian Mann / Benedikt von Walter / Thomas Hess / Rolf T. Wigand
[In German] Mit Open Access in die wissenschaftliche Zukunft?
Eine neue Publikationsform zwischen hoher Wertschätzung und verhaltener Nutzung
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In this paper we systematically disinguish supporting and inhibiting factors for the further diffusion of Open Access publishing among scientists.
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Mann, F. / von Walter, B. / Hess, T. / Wigand R.T. (2007): Mit Open Access in die wissenschaftliche Zukunft? - Eine neue Publikationsform zwischen hoher Wertschätzung und verhaltener Nutzung, in: LMU – Munich School of Management Magazine, 5. Jg., S. 34-37
Thomas Hess / Rolf T. Wigand / Florian Mann / Benedikt von Walter
Open Access & Science Publishing
Results of a Study on Researchers’ Acceptance and Use of Open Access Publishing
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This Management Report summarizes the main descriptive results of a study on researchers' acceptance and use of Open Access publishing. The study was conducted in 2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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Hess, T. / Wigand, R.T. / Mann, F. / von Walter, B. (2007): Open Access & Science Publishing - Results of a Study on Researchers’ Acceptance and Use of Open Access Publishing, in: Management Reports of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media, LMU München, Munich, Nr. 1/07
