... movement is still at its early stages in the Arabian Gulf Region. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Open access Open systems Institutional repositories Developments Implementation Arabian Gulf region Persian Gulf States Over the past few years, IRs have been created...

... Semantics Open systems Ontology It could be argued that there have been two great ages of exploration in human history. The first happened around the beginning of the sixteenth century with the voyages of the great European explorers, the second in the middle of the twentieth century which involved...

... collections in the early 1990s. Toby Burrows can be contacted at: toby.burrows@uwa.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Linked open data Single search Information retrieval Open systems The “single search box” has become something of a Holy Grail for research libraries...

... and HLT's first open source collaboration. Information research Open systems Resource sharing New Zealand © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 get public collections accessible by getting them online; get private collections online too; get the stories out of people's...

... for such information packaging. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Digital storage Extensible markup language Open systems The CASPAR RIR is not only for storing RINs, but also allows them to be reused by multiple AIPs. In addition to sharing, the RIR allows discovery and creates...

... another measure (construct validity) or an external criterion (external validity). Digital storage Electronic journals Data analysis Open systems Statistics © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Educational science research in general focuses on the classroom aspects...

... Open systems Publishing University libraries Germany Since the Berlin Declaration on open access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess‐berlin/berlindeclaration.html) in 2003, open access has gained increasing significance within the academic world. Various...

..., and non‐governmental organizations. Stephanie R. Walker can be contacted at: swalker@brooklyn.cuny.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Open systems Communication Research Electronic media Developing countries Open access (OA) has been both a goal and a (partial) reality...

... efforts of the world‐wide OJS community. Open systems Reading aids Electronic journals © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Rick Kopak can be contacted at: rkopak@interchange.ubc.ca The reading tools are divided into two major components. The first set, immediately under...

... focus on services including “the provision of a mechanism for the dissemination of information” (Manuel and Oppenheim, 2007). Open systems Generation and dissemination of information Online databases Libraries The online environment has brought about a revolution in scholarly publishing...

... Open systems Communication technologies South America The following parameters were used to characterise the chosen countries: social context indicators; DOI; GDP 2007 (OECD) (www.oecd.org/home/0,3305,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html); scientific output 2005 (Scimago...

... This paper is of special interest for LIS research. Open systems Digital storage Librarianship Information profession Archives management The OA model associated with the new information and communication technologies is generating new circumstances for our professional environment: © Emerald...

.... Eric P. Delozier can be contacted at: epd103@psu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Libraries Unix‐type systems Open systems Computer software Libraries and open source software share two core values: openness and accessibility (Jaffe and Careaga, 2007). The guiding...

... service/company/department. Open systems Data storage Institutional libraries Greece “Open access is free online access to peer‐reviewed research” (http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/liege22.mov); this is how Stevan Harnad defines open access in his address to the European Rectors...

... of the Research Committee approved the policy guidelines and these were then publicized within the University. IS had already set up an open access repository in which papers could be deposited. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Open systems University libraries Fund management...

... journals increases, they have to continue paying subscriptions, as subscription journals which see a decrease of articles in favour of new, OA, publishing outlets seldom reduce their subscription prices accordingly. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Electronic publishing Open systems...

... these remarkable initiatives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Open systems Universities Professional associations Information retrieval Communication technologies United States of America It's a mere moment in a man's life between the all‐star game and the old‐timer's game (Vin Scully...

... Medeiros can be contacted at: nmedeiro@haverford.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Resource management Open systems Manpower planning Work flow Accessible information helps to dissolve the mystery surrounding the management of e‐resources that exists in many libraries...

..., library staff established an FTP link to the campus graphics lab to transfer these large files. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Maps Collections management Electronic media Open systems Databases The Early Washington Maps project began in 2000 with funding provided...