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crln-9232	Walter, Scott	C & RL Spotlight	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1381	28	30	Increasing access, growing impact Last month, a study conducted by scholars at Google described how “dramatic changes in scholarly communication” over the past 20 years—the shift to digital publishing, the digitization of journal backfiles, the provision of access to pre-prints, and the development of increasingly powerful search tools facilitating discovery of a wider range of resources—have resulted in increasing use of older articles in current scholarship.1 Looking across a range of scholarly and scientific disciplines, the authors found that the use of older scholarship was not only significantly greater in 2013 than it was in 1990, but that the use of older scholarship has been growing at an increasingly rapid rate since 2002. We do not have specific data on the use of older articles in the citations included in recent volumes of College & Research Libraries, but the article-level metrics added to each article this year at least allow us to review use of individual articles from the digital backfile.	cache/crln-9232.pdf	txt/crln-9232.txt