Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica

In this article we analyze the online visibility and content usage of two Americanist Journals published by CSIC, Revista de Indias and Anuario de Estudios Americanos. The online edition dates back to 2007; contents are comparable in terms of accessible documents, and both Journals are published in...

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Autores principales: Ramón B. Rodríguez, Natividad Sastre, Cristina Gutiérrez
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:650da66373584bc883788004ac17fd522021-12-02T10:39:53ZRevista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.59766https://doaj.org/article/650da66373584bc883788004ac17fd522010-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59766https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252In this article we analyze the online visibility and content usage of two Americanist Journals published by CSIC, Revista de Indias and Anuario de Estudios Americanos. The online edition dates back to 2007; contents are comparable in terms of accessible documents, and both Journals are published in Open Access, with a 6-months embargo. We also discuss some methodological issues in terms of the need of a data normalization allowing the measurement of genuine downloads assimilable to document reading. Both Journals registered close to 500,000 normalized downloads along 2008 and 2009, most coming from Latin America and the United States (70%). Data show a high degree of repeated downloads of the same document from the same user (25% of total downloads) and indexation downloads (25% of normalized downloads), and also the lack of correlation between Journal’s visibility (webpage visits) and content usage (document downloads). Access restriction has a negative effect, as evidenced by the low downloading of embargoed documents.Ramón B. RodríguezNatividad SastreCristina GutiérrezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleamericanist journalsarticle downloadindexationnormalizationOJSopen accessAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2010)
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FR
PT
topic americanist journals
article download
indexation
normalization
OJS
open access
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle americanist journals
article download
indexation
normalization
OJS
open access
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Ramón B. Rodríguez
Natividad Sastre
Cristina Gutiérrez
Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
description In this article we analyze the online visibility and content usage of two Americanist Journals published by CSIC, Revista de Indias and Anuario de Estudios Americanos. The online edition dates back to 2007; contents are comparable in terms of accessible documents, and both Journals are published in Open Access, with a 6-months embargo. We also discuss some methodological issues in terms of the need of a data normalization allowing the measurement of genuine downloads assimilable to document reading. Both Journals registered close to 500,000 normalized downloads along 2008 and 2009, most coming from Latin America and the United States (70%). Data show a high degree of repeated downloads of the same document from the same user (25% of total downloads) and indexation downloads (25% of normalized downloads), and also the lack of correlation between Journal’s visibility (webpage visits) and content usage (document downloads). Access restriction has a negative effect, as evidenced by the low downloading of embargoed documents.
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author Ramón B. Rodríguez
Natividad Sastre
Cristina Gutiérrez
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Natividad Sastre
Cristina Gutiérrez
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title Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
title_short Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
title_full Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
title_fullStr Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
title_full_unstemmed Revista de Indias y Anuario de Estudios Americanos. Visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
title_sort revista de indias y anuario de estudios americanos. visibilidad y uso de la edición electrónica
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2010
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