How often do economists self-archive?

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How often do economists self-archive?

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Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Rosemarie Lavaty (UCSB)

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Ted Bergstrom

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.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 2007a.

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NEP-ALL-2008-03-01 (All new papers)
NEP-HPE-2008-03-01 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
NEP-IPR-2008-03-01 (Intellectual Property Rights)
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Carl Bergstrom & Ted Bergstrom, 2004. "The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 2004A, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
Aviv Nevo & Daniel L. Rubinfeld & Mark McCabe, 2005. "Academic Journal Pricing and the Demand of Libraries," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 447-452, May. [Downloadable!]
Onur Baser & Elda Pema, 2003. "The return of publications for economics faculty," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 1(1), pages 1-13. [Downloadable!]

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