Librarian, Heal Thyself: A Scholarly Communication Analysis of LIS Journals

Micah Vandegrift
2014 In the Library with the Lead Pipe  
In Brief This article presents an analysis of 111 Library and Information Science journals based on measurements of "openness" including copyright policies, open access self-archiving policies and open access publishing options. We propose a new metric to rank journals, the J.O.I. Factor (Journal Openness Index), based on measures of openness rather than perceived rank or [...]
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