..., availability of open access (OA) policy, availability of guidance and training, willingness, motivation and so on for OA journal publishing and to expose the challenges in OA journal publishing. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative research approach was used and a structured questionnaire...

... due to the immaturity of the open-access culture, as well as linguistic and technical problems. This study has value, in that it investigates the status of Asian countries’ research data management and global distribution infrastructure in global open-science trends. 28 01 2019 15 03 2019...

... typology-based and mediation-based approaches. Open access Academic publishing Grey literature Electronic theses and dissertations FAIR principles The debate started on the campus of the University of Lille, during the nineteenth International Symposium on Electronic Theses...

...Ifeanyi Jonas Ezema; Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether open accessibility of medical journals published in Africa may influence journals’ citation impact. Design/methodology/approach An evaluative informetric research approach was used to compare...

...Mohammad reza Ghane; Mohammad Reza Niazmand Purpose The study aims to monitor the status of open access (OA) journals published in Developing 8 (D-8) countries, i.e. Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. Design/methodology/approach The authors' web-based...

...Ming Chen; Yunfei Du Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to measure the status and quality of library and information science (LIS) open-access (OA) journals in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Design/methodology/approach The study selected 86 source journals of LIS in the SSCI...

...Fayaz Ahmad Loan; Shueb Sheikh Purpose This study aims to assess open access (OA) repositories in the field of the health and medicine (H&M) available in the Directory of the Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) by analysing their various facets like geographical distribution, language...

...A Abrizah; Mohd Hilmi; Norliya Ahmad Kassim Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to be concerned with the motivations and resistance among an institutional repository (IR) stakeholder – the Library and Information Science (LIS) academicians – with respect to Green Road open access publishing...

.../methodology/approach – The research population consisted of 700 free EJs of Medical Sciences, which were collected from two reputable websites, namely, Directory of Open Access Journals and Free Medical Journals. After first screening, 269 free EJs including 76 journals in health, 4 journals in nursing, 175...

...Nagaraja Aragudige; M Vasanthakumar Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the impact of open-access (OA) journals in engineering and technology institutions, if libraries are not subscribed to the journals through the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) mandatory packages. In India...

... collections, as well as ensures maximum access to them by users around the world. An institutional repository is the best way to provide open access to research output visible for knowledge sharing. Several software – such as DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, or Greenstone – provide a web-based OAI-complaint...

...Ruth Geraldine Hoskins Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present the influence open access initiatives (OAIs) have on journal cancellations in university libraries in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on part of a doctoral research project which examined...

...Feria Wirba Singeh; A. Abrizah; Noor Harun Abdul Karim Purpose The aim of this paper is to evaluate Malaysian authors' readiness to self‐archive in open access repositories. The effectiveness of open access repositories to support knowledge‐sharing is expected to be highly dependent...

...Shunbo Yuan; Weina Hua Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to measure the scholarly impact of LIS (Library and Information Science) open access journals (OA journals), most of which are not indexed by the Web of Science (WoS). In addition, the paper seeks to discuss measurement methods...

..., managing scientific information in an open access model increasingly demanded by researchers, funding organisations and other stakeholders. Adopting a result‐driven approach, activities focused on the expansion of the content base with high quality research outputs, including textual research papers, data...