...Muhammad Zahid Raza; Muhammad Rafiq; Saira Hanif Soroya Purpose This study aims to discover the perceived awareness, benefits and suitable strategies of the Pakistani editors of Higher Education Commission (HEC)-recognized scholarly journals regarding open-access (OA) journal publishing...

...Altaf Ali; Mohammad Nazim; Shakil Ahmad Purpose This study aims to analyze the adoption of open access (OA) publishing in social sciences within central universities in India, focusing on various aspects such as the growth of OA literature, the use of different OA routes and collaboration patterns...

...Nadim Akhtar Khan; S.M. Shafi Purpose There is an inclination towards openness in research greatly supported by the accessibility of open access theses and dissertations (OATDs) from many universities and research institutions through institutional repositories or collaborative efforts like...

...Rima Hazarika; Abhijit Roy; K.G. Sudhier Purpose This paper aims to present a comprehensive overview of open-access publications by Indian non-profit organizations over the past two decades. The study explores the growth, licensing patterns, citations, authorship patterns and other parameters...

... sources: Altmetric.com, Mendeley.com and Unpaywall.org, using OpenRefine and REST/API calls. Further, the authors observed open access altmetric advantages (OAAA) and categorical OAAA (COAAA) across seven altmetric platforms for all articles as well as discipline-wise. Findings The result shows...

...Ishrat Ayub Sofi; Aasif Ahmad Mir Purpose This study aims to highlight the many distinguishing characteristics of open-access repositories that archive “Patents” in the Directory of Open-Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) provided by Asian nations. Design/methodology/approach The OpenDOAR...

... and accessible education, access to knowledge as public good, culture of participation, collaboration and sharing, open access to scientific information, creation of a knowledge society Language barriers, limited resources and support, customization barriers, quality of content, copy right of educational...

...Mohammad Nazim; Raj Kumar Bhardwaj; Anil Agrawal; Afroz Bano Purpose This study aims to analyze Open Access (OA) publishing trends and policy perspectives in India. Different aspects, such as the growth of OA journals digital repositories, the proportion of OA availability to research literature...

... of the institutional repository (IR) Name of institute Indian Academy of Sciences: Publications of Fellows Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore ePrints@IISc Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore Eprints@CMFRI Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Cochin Open Access...

... of understanding citer motivation definitely carry research value. The study explores the transition in authors’ citation behavior due to disruption in scholarly communication landscape; from print to an electronic journal, open access, metrics and social media. Furthermore, the study also explores the influence...

...Sumeer Gul; Sangita Gupta; Tariq Ahmad Shah; Nahida Tun Nisa; Shazia Manzoor; Rehana Rasool Purpose Open access journals (OAJs) offer immediate, free and unrestricted online access to the scholarly literature. The purpose of this study is to trace the status and characteristics of OAJs published...

... the citation indicators of open access (OA), full subscription and hybrid journals and articles based on the Scopus in the field of library and information science (LIS) for a period of ten years (2004-2013). Design/methodology/approach The research population is all LIS journals and articles in LIS hybrid...

...Mohammad Nazim; Sana Zia Purpose This paper aims to examine the level of open access (OA) adoption by researchers in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), identify predictors of OA status (OA vs non-OA) and explore the availability of OA versions of the articles and venues used by the researches...

.... Open access Nigeria Academic librarians Self-archiving Institutional repository Academic social networking sites In recent times, document-sharing services such as ResearchGate (RG), Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citation and other profiling platforms are experiencing a strong growth...

.../approach With the help of Registry of Open Access Repositories and Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), 39 repositories were located in south India. From these, Personal websites, the IRs that are currently not working and the repositories used for journal archiving were excluded. A total...

... and journals. Design/methodology/approach Given that the paper is an opinion of the current status of SC, a formal documented methodology is not applicable. However, it gives an overview of SC in Nigeria and traces the origin of open access awareness to 2008 when the first open access sensitization...

.... Developing IRs is a consequence of the internet’s fundamental influence on the availability and distribution of scholarly information. IRs were instituted to optimise open access of scholarly information that can be freely distributed on the internet. The perception is that the IRs are not embraced in Africa...

... point of their research is the list of scholarly open-access publishers and open-access stand-alone journals created by Jeffrey Beall. Specifically, they analysed the presence of predatory journals in the search results obtained from Google Scholar in the engineering and computer science fields...

...Ivana Hebrang Grgic Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present results of a survey of Croatian academic libraries’ user education about open access (OA)-related issues. The concept of OA literacy will be explained, and the term will be put in the context of information literacy (IL...

...Sumeer Gul; Tariq Ahmad Shah; Nahida Tun Nisa Purpose – The study aims to focus on the application of Web 2.0 tools in Agriculture and Food Sciences open access journals. The changing trends in scholarly publishing processes have revolutionised the academic world. The shifting of academic...