Thursday: B3 - Virtual communities - Scholarly publishing

Jukka Englund (Finland): Promoting scholarly publishing through libraries

The Medical Library at Terkko answers one of the most striking questions of scholars in their strive for maximum visibility and impressiveness for their publishing efforts: How many of my articles have been published and what are the Impact Factors of the journals? They programed a database called Scholar Chart , which combines RSS feeds, Impact Factors (IF) and SCImago Journal Ranks (SJR) for 550 Finnish medical scholars. a really huge task and a quite fascinating solution!

Elisabetta Poltronieri, Alessandro Giuliani, Antonella Mangone (Italy): The discipline makes the difference: impact of research results published in open access and non-open access journals

Outcomes: Open access article were cited twice as much by open access papers than non-Open access articles. There is a close correlation between the number of citations in OA and non-OA journals -> The scientific community for both journal groups is quite the same (logically, as a scientist is only interested in Impact Factors, not in the economic publishing modell of the journal). Surprisingly, the citation latency in OA journals is not significantly shorter than in non-OA journals.