...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...

... --> E‐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...

..., and business analyses of competition policies. These are more specialised, but there will be few people concerned with information and communications technology and systems who do not find something of interest in this book. Two groups of papers address key social issues in communications policy...

...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...

... education. A number of reports and policy initiatives – including the Dearing report on Higher Education, the Kennedy report on Further Education, the Government’s proposals for a National Grid for Learning, the Library and Information Commission’s proposals for a People’s Network, and the Government’s...

...Valerie Nurcombe Edited by Ian   Rowlands . Understanding Information Policy: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, 22‐24 July 1996 . London : Bowker Saur   1997 . viii + 305 pp , ISBN: 1 85739 179 9   No price British Library Research...

...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. the escalation in cost...

... 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...