... to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Knowledge management Institutional repositories South African universities Open access Research visibility Research access Higher education institutions Knowledge is a powerful asset fuelling human prosperity, and organisations are increasingly...

...Sudhakar Mishra; Archana Shukla Purpose An open access policy is a set of guidelines for researchers to share their work with everyone. This study aims to analyzes open access policy adapted by the Indian institutions registered in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving...

...Saroja Kumar Panda; Somyajeet Dey; Atul Bhatt; Aparna Satapathy Purpose This paper critically evaluates Shodhganga, India’s centralized digital repository for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). It explores the repository’s impact, open access policy and the roles of participating...

...Ahmet Meti Tmava; Sara Ryza Purpose The number of open access repositories (OARs) has been growing globally, but faculty members have been reluctant to embrace OAR and submit their work. While there are studies that looked at sociotechnical factors that affect faculty participation in OARs...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sustainability Institutional repositories Open access PLS-SEM Nigeria Institutional repository Over several years, institutions realized the importance of institutional repositories (IRs) and developed strategies for the management...

...Sonam Singh Purpose This paper aims to proffer a glimpse of diverse e-resources and materials accumulated by National Digital Library of India (NDLI) for facilitating open access resources (OARs) during the difficult times of global pandemic. Out of all the resources, an attempt has been made...

... basis with Sci-Hub, on the basis of data obtained from Alexa databank ( www.alexa.com ). Sci-Hub is a website that provides pirated open-access to the research literature, where piracy, according to The Economic Times (2020), refers to the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content. Design...

... are fast emerging economies and contribute significantly in research output. This study makes an effort to analyze and explore the role of BRICS nations towards open access research data repository registered with Registry of Research Data Repositories. Design/methodology/approach The data were...

..., geographic origin of cited sources, and so on. Along with the potential for scientometrics and TDM, there are other reasons for open access to Master’s theses, such as enhancing accessibility, increasing the impact in scientific journals and conferences (Gillet et al., 2013), preventing...

... in these articles, 32 keywords, which were selected on the basis of their occurring more than four times, were extracted and used to generate a co-occurrence matrix. The study found the main research subjects in relation to IRs included the IR as a significant means of open access, issues about scholarly...

... to accelerate in the future and have a more significant impact on scholarly communication. The main catalysts are: strengthening of national and funder policies that serve to both mandate open access (green or gold) and raise awareness of open access amongst faculty; the alignment of repositories with current...

... and sharing research with the state citizens, and the library’s own goals of raising awareness of and supporting open access. Also outlined are the technical and procedural choices made, important activities undertaken to develop, define and publicize the new services, campus response to the service and next...

... – There is an important need for accessible software design. In the case of CSUN, one of the campus partners will be better served by improving the web accessibility of the authors’ online open access journals. Originality/value – Although many studies and analyses of Section 508 compliance of front-facing web...

... body of literature and to the overall improvement of ETD programs globally. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Open access Scholarly communication Institutional repository (IR) Electronic theses and dissertations ETD ETD management Digital scholarship Natalie Bulick can...

... access has secured a strong foothold in the information world. Originality/value – The article provides a vision of the future that is largely positive for libraries. The benefits of open access are incontestable. The questions and concerns that remain focus on finances (Brown et al...

...‐mail contact with the authors' acquaintances in several universities and institutions of the Arabian Gulf region. The approach takes the form of a general review of the open access and IR developments in the Arabian Gulf region. Findings The study finds that open access and IR developments are at the early...