�When academic articles ar "open access" or exempt online, they get read more frequently, but they don't -- going against conventional wisdom of Solomon -- catch cited more often in academic literature, finds a new Cornell study.
The reason, suggest Cornell graduate student Philip Davis and colleagues, including three Cornell professors, is that most researchers credibly already get all the access they need to relevant articles.
"It appears that higher quality articles -- in other words, more citable articles -- are simply made freely available," said Davis. "Previous studies victimization different methods simply got cause and effect reversed." The
