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Strategic Access

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Gregory J. Gordon
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Abstract

There is a revolution afoot in scholarly communication and it is called, Open Access. Whilst Gregory J Gordon is a strong proponent of Open Access, he believes many people are missing the point as more does not mean better, it only means more. Open Access has had a major impact on scholarly communications by reducing the traditional barriers to research. Unfortunately, this has compounded the issues of discovery. Institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories and multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional repositories and metrics such as downloads, citations, and Eigenfactor™ Score are new tools in the scholarly researcher's kit. Familiarity and comprehension of these tools will help scholars make efficient use of the overabundance of scholarly communications. This strategic access approach will ultimately result in greater precision.

Keywords

open accessrepositories
Type
Legal Literature: Unlocking Access
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 198 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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