...Ismail Olatunji Adeyemi; Quareebat Ayomide Adeleke; Shamsudeen Aweda Abdullahi; Robiat Gambari Abdulazeez; Monsuru Damilare Abdulazeez; Abubakar Folorunsho Abdulazeez Purpose Open access (OA) resources are free to access and help in research and teaching/learning, allowing libraries to manage...

.../methodology/approach Literature on the “One nation and one subscription” concept, recently introduced by the GOI, has been studied to know the concept’s pros and cons. The authors identified the needs and advantages of the idea. They consulted SCOPUS to know the total and open access research publications...

...Osman Imoro; Nampombe Saurombe Purpose Ghanaian public universities have fully embraced the concept of open access. This is evident in the increasing numbers of institutional repositories (IRs) by universities in Ghana. However, to ensure the sustainability of these IRs, it is vital the current IR...

...Daud Khan; Mohammad Ashar; Mayank Yuvaraj Purpose This study aims to investigate the research and citation impact of open access (OA) journals versus non-OA journals being published in the spectrum of library and information science (LIS) across the world and to further ascertain whether OA...

... than 80% research results produced by Indian LIS researchers were published in foreign LIS research journals, mostly published from the USA and the UK. A good lot of Indian LIS researchers prefer to publish their research results in open access research journals. Library professionals, teachers...

...), European Association for the Exploitation of Grey Literature (EAGLE), white literature, white papers, theses and dissertations, GreyNet, grey literature-electronic media, Grey market, open access, OpenNet, open access repositories, institutional repositories, open archives, electronic theses...

... of the digital assets within the North American academic libraries. This paper aims to focus on the select primary source editions including select Spanish language colonial imprints that are available electronically on the Web along the Open Access. These Web-based resources serve as the reference tools...

.... Academic libraries Digitization Open access Ghana Institutional repository IR Academic institutions generate information as part of their core function of conducting research to enhance the knowledge of the human race to help understand the universe and its content better. The knowledge...

...Zahid Ashraf Wani; Showkat Ahmad Wani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure the fully open access (OA) contents cited by researchers from top three universities in the USA (MIT, CIT and Stanford) in the field of physics. This study aims to identify the core fully OA journals widely used...

.... The primary reason for establishing an IR is to increase the visibility of the institution’s research output by making it an open access with regard to copyright issues. This paper aims to propose a conceptualmodel for scholarly communication through IRs to provide an opportunity to integrate and facilitate...

...Kay Ann Cassell Purpose – This paper aims to present a report on the 2015 Charleston Conference. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on information gained at the conference. Findings – Areas covered are privacy, the importance of the article, open access and electronic...

...; and providing the publisher with a connection to innovative forms of scholarly communication and their ensuing business opportunities. Cooperation Academic libraries Scholarly communication Open access Patron-driven acquisitions University presses University presses (UPs) have long been key...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Interlending Guides and handbooks Library systems Copyright Statistics Open access Internet Interlibrary loan is a mainstay service of almost every library, providing access to information resources through collaborative borrowing...

...Magdalena Krynicka Purpose Although the “open access” and “bibliography” appear to be contradictory concepts, as the first applies to the idea of direct and unrestricted access and the use of the resources' content and the latter refers to the list of resources' descriptions, the issue of open...

...Mary F. Casserly Walt   Crawford . Open Access: What You Need to Know . Chicago, IL : American Library Association   2011 . 76 pp.   $US45.00 ($US40.50 for ALA members) , ISBN: 9780838911068 ALA Editions Special Reports Paperback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013...