...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...

...‐research Policy Science Humanities Ethics Data The editors admirably pull together a wide range of contributions on the potential for new technologies to transform research. The authors provide a critical understanding of how increasingly powerful distributed and collaborative computer networks...

...Lorrie Faith Cranor; Shane Greenstein Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects . Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press   2002 . xxiii 415 pp. , ISBN: 0‐262‐003300‐3   £33.50 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004...

...Philip Ayoo; Japhet Otike The importance of a national information policy to a developing country is explained and the factors hindering its development in Kenya are discussed. These factors relate to poor recognition of the importance of information, funding shortages, weak infrastructure, lack...

.... The role of the state in developing an information society is discussed. A national information policy is identified as a feature and its application in and implications for Scotland are considered. Key features of an Internet culture are indicated and discussed, with lessons and conclusions for social...

... at the end of the conference. However, in neither case do we find any clear pointers as to how such a strategy should be developed or by whom. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information Policy Scotland Parliament Education Library services Since 1993 the Cataloguing and Indexing Group...

...Valerie Nurcombe

Ian Rowlands has brought together these papers from an intensive two‐day workshop initiated by the Information Policy Unit within the Department of Information Science of City University. The aim of the workshop was not to justify why information policy should...

...Udo Nwokocha Laments the abscence of a National Information Policy (NIP) in Nigeria. Highlights the relevance and possible impact of an NIP in the areas of acquisition/resource sharing and the packaging/repackaging and organization of documents and other library materials. Commends the registration...

... of the British Library Board, Sir Anthony Kenny,produced a pamphlet outlining the background to the development of the new British Library building, its present state and future prospects. Discusses this in relation to the other documents and development of British Library policy. © MCB UP Limited 1995...

... Among the events of National Library Week was the opening of the new Croydon Central Library. Describes the architecture of the building. The Library was opened by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State at the Department of National Heritage, who used the occasion to explain Government policy on public...

... policy; it suggested that its readers should lodge their protests with both local councillors and the Minister for the Arts. Then, apart from a few further reports, all was quiet in both the local and national press until the Autumn. Richard Luce first gave full public expression to his views...