[Bioperl-l] 'Papers'

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Chang <jchang@smi.stanford.edu> writes:

  Jeffrey> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Phillip Lord
  Jeffrey> wrote:
  >> Firstly the citation metrics are all skewed toward journals which
  >> do not allow free redistribution of the papers.

  Jeffrey> Why is this?  I would have expected that freely
  Jeffrey> redistributed papers would have a slight edge in citations,
  Jeffrey> because they're more accessable.

They haven't be around for very long. Free electronic access now
sounds great, but 10 years ago no one really cared that much, as
computers were not powerful enough to cope with diagrams, or worse
photo's. 

In time this will change perhaps. 

Phil