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University of Missouri Chancellor Mun Choi on Thursday faced more questions and criticism about data used in promotion and tenure decisions. The information came forward during Thursday's meeting of the MU Faculty Council. Faculty members previously expressed displeasure about the arrangement during a General Faculty meeting. The university uses Academic Analytics, a company that compiles information about journal articles, citations and other data for universities. The university is paying $512,800 for the service this year. The company doesn't accurately represent the data for all faculty...

 E-Mail An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. "The open access publishing model is growing, and open access successfully democratizes the results of research projects, but it's clear now that some scholars are more likely to be represented in the open access literature" said AARC director and lead author of the study Anthony Olejniczak, Ph.D. The researchers analyzed characteristics of 182,320 open access a...