...Nikitas N. Karanikolas; Christos Skourlas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine personal digital libraries (PDL) as a self-archiving approach, mainly based on individuals’ activities. Literature presents a wide range of perceptions of the term PDL. The rationale of using PDL...

... concerns about the maintenance of scholarly standards and robust peer-review systems have, by and large, turned out to be unfounded (Laakso et al., 2011 ; Solomon, 2013 ; Suber, 2012). The slow uptake by authors themselves of the opportunity to self-archive their work in institutional...