Posted: April 4th, 2012 | Author: Jan B. Weiland | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in March 2012
This month we are able to report one journal, two book series and five working paper series being added to EconStor:
- Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (AEF), Montrose, CA
- Ilmenauer Schriften zur Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Technische Universität Ilmenau
- Series of the Chair Construction Economics / Schriftenreihe der Professur Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Bauwesen, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, DIW Berlin
- Data Documentation, DIW Berlin
- Working Papers, Institut für Genossenschaftswesen, University of Münster
- SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
- HAW im Dialog – Weidener Diskussionspapiere, University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden (HAW)
With nealy 750 new publications in March we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 37,250 – by counting almost the same number of pdf downloads as last month: 96,418. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:
- Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (1497 downloads)
- Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (540)
- Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (520)
- Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín: „Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“ (473)
- Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (435)
Posted: March 6th, 2012 | Author: Jan B. Weiland | Filed under: Monthly Report | Comments Off on EconStor in February 2012
In February 2012 we have added about 1,000 papers to EconStor, including these new working paper and book series:
- Edition HWWI, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)
- Working Papers, Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
- Papers and Preprints of the Department of Innovation Research and Sustainable Resource Management, Chemnitz University of Technology
- Discourses in Social Market Economy, OrdnungsPolitisches Portal (OPO)
- Working Papers, Institute of Finance, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology
- Passau Discussion Papers (Economics Series), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Passau
- Working Paper Series, School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London
The 36,500 full texts from EconStor have been downloaded 96,621 times in the last month. The Top 5 most downloaded papers in February were:
- Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (1322 downloads)
- Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín: „Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“ (1185)
- Bauer, Thomas K.: „High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“ (850)
- Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (620)
- Gottschalk, Jan: „An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“ (464)
Posted: February 14th, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: citation analysis, Downloads, Impact, Social media, Twitter | 3 Comments »
New study finds strong correlation between the relationship between Twitter mentions and both article downloads and article citations
A new study by Xin Shuai, Alberto Pepe and Johan Bollen analyzes the online response of the scientific community to the preprint publication of scholarly articles. Based on a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and April 2011 they study three forms of reactions to these preprints: how they are downloaded on the arXiv.org site, how they are mentioned on the social media site Twitter, and how they are cited in the scholarly record.
They find that Twitter mentions follow rapidly after article submission and that they are correlated with later article downloads and later article citations, indicating that social media may be an important factor in determining the scientific impact of an article.
This fits very well with a study from 2011, where David McKenzie and Berk Özler analyze the Impact of Economics Blogs They found out, that “links from blogs cause a striking increase in the number of abstract views and downloads of economics papers.”
Posted: February 13th, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: EconBiz, Open Access, RePEc | 1 Comment »
The Economics portal EconBiz (operated by the ZBW) has released a new tool called EconBizOpen. It’s an Open Access database for Economics and Business Studies and includes more than 800.000 full-text articles, which are accessible for free on the web.
Major input sources for EconBizOpen are RePec and BASE. BASE (maintained by Bielefeld Universiy Library) is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines dedicated to academic open access material. Its papers from Business and Economics are now also part of EconBizOpen.
Posted: February 7th, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: Cover pages, EconStor | Comments Off on EconStor documents now including cover pages
All documents from EconStor are now equipped with a separate cover page. This page is not part of the original paper, but is rather a service to our users, which gives them some information about the metadata, where they got the paper from and a suggestion for citation. Here’s one example
Posted: February 7th, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: Open Access, Publishing Reform, Repositories | Comments Off on COAR publishes open letter to Elsevier
In support for the researchers initiative “The Cost of Knowledge” against Elsevier’s business practices, the international repository network COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) released an open letter to the publisher yesterday. In the letter COAR
“urges Elsevier to reconsider its prohibitive approach to open access and revise its policies to allow the deposit of research articles with minimum delay. We encourage publishers to work closely with the library and repository communities to develop effective and sustainable methods for article deposit that serve the needs of researchers, their institutions”
Posted: February 2nd, 2012 | Author: Jan B. Weiland | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: discussion papers, Downloads, working papers | Comments Off on EconStor in January 2012
We are happy to announce the following working and discussion paper series which have been added to EconStor in January 2012:
- Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project “The Future of Fiscal Federalism”, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
- Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Market Behavior, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
- KOF Studies, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
- Public Policy Briefs, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
- Working Papers on Risk and Insurance, Institute for Risk and Insurance, University of Hamburg
- Working Papers, Institute of Marketing, Technische Universität Braunschweig
- Bayreuth Working Papers on Finance, Accounting and Taxation (FAcT-Papers), Chair of Finance and Banking, University of Bayreuth
By offering more than 35,500 full texts overall, we have counted exactly 103,557 pdf downloads during this month. The Top 5 downloads in January by number of downloads were:
- Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (1288 downloads)
- Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín: „Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“ (1183)
- Bauer, Thomas K.: „High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“ (806)
- Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik: „Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“ (577)
- Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (553)
Posted: January 30th, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: Business Models, Open Access, Peer Review, Publishing Reform | Comments Off on Researcher Initiative for Publishing reform
Under the headline “The Cost of Knowledge” more than 7000 researchers protest against Elsevier’s business practices.
Their main request is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work (e.g. via Open Access business models). As long as Elsevier does not comply with that, the signing researchers refrain to do any publishing, refereeing or editorial work for Elsevier journals. The initiative started in the mathematical science, but also several Economists have signed the petition.
Posted: January 23rd, 2012 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: Open Access, RePEc, Repositories | Comments Off on Final Report of PEER analyses current publication process
The EU-funded project PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) analyses the scholarly publication process with a focus the impact of repositories on journal publishing.
The final report, which is now available (http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/) states the importance of the right publication strategy:
“Today, the distinctions between the three [scholarly research publication] models (subscription based, OA or repositories) are blurred, although it is becoming clear that the success of OA journals and repositories – as is the case for subscription based journals – depends on the strategies of individual players, and not merely OA status. The success of BioMed Central and PLoS proves that OA status does not equate in principle to lower quality of research as was suggested initially by some concerned authors. At the same time, OA status does not in itself automatically lead to higher citation and visibility for the authors. In the case of repositories, while some (such as REPEC and ArXiv) succeeded in becoming a starting point and not just a destination in scholarly search (i.e. a site actively searched for and not referred to via a keyword based search), many other repositories are less visible.”
Posted: November 28th, 2011 | Author: Olaf Siegert | Filed under: Monthly Report | Tags: articles, Economics, journals, RePEc, working papers | Comments Off on Working Papers on RePEc are much more used than Journal Articles
RePEc, one of EconStor’s strong partners in disseminating and showcasing research output in Economics has released new figures on the usage of it’s papers. In their latest blog entry they say:
While a majority [of the papers] are from journals (61%), online working papers are much more popular. While an article is download on average once every two months, working papers are downloaded close to once a month.
http://blog.repec.org/2011/11/26/1-million-works-available-online-through-repec/