%0 Generic %1 misc %A Bergstrom, Ted C. %A Lavaty, Rosemarie %D 2007 %K economics self-publishing ssrn OpenAccess RePEc %T How often do economists self-archive? %U http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/2007a/ %X To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it discusses the implications of self-archiving for the pricing of subscription-based academic journals.

@misc{misc, abstract = {To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it discusses the implications of self-archiving for the pricing of subscription-based academic journals. }, added-at = {2009-04-23T09:06:30.000+0200}, author = {Bergstrom, Ted C. and Lavaty, Rosemarie}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2322de37a64e3762a868692318b7a1294/antares}, howpublished = {self-published}, interhash = {b073b5127bf59ff6cb77990c28bcca59}, intrahash = {322de37a64e3762a868692318b7a1294}, keywords = {economics self-publishing ssrn OpenAccess RePEc}, timestamp = {2011-01-19T11:00:27.000+0100}, title = {How often do economists self-archive?}, url = {http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/2007a/}, year = 2007 }