The open access movement and the library world seen from the experience of the E‐LIS project

The purpose of this paper is to describe the information about the E‐prints project in Librarianship and Information Science (E‐LIS) experience.

Descriptive method with informative scope.

E‐LIS had generated a new international view of the intellectual production in Library and Information Sciences (LIS) that include information professionals from emergent and developing countries.

Contribute to understand the real dimension of the intellectual production in LIS.

This paper is of special interest for LIS research.