...Miriam Kakai; Maria G.N. Musoke; Constant Okello-Obura Purpose Given that repositories were proposed as one of the routes to open access (OA), this study sought to establish the achievements universities in East Africa had attained in initiating institutional repositories (IRs), the challenges...

... research available on open access sites. Open access (OA) publishing makes ones’ research visible by removing it from behind paywalls and rendering it accessible to anyone with an internet connection. An increasing number of research funding bodies are now expecting this as part of their requirements...

...Abdoulaye Kaba; Raed Said Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a survey undertaken at Al Ain University of Science and Technology (AAU) to investigate and understand faculty awareness, use and perception of Open Access (OA) resources. Design/methodology/approach...

...Faye Chadwell; Shan C. Sutton Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a vision for how academic libraries can assume a more central role in a future where open access (OA) publishing has become the predominant model for disseminating scholarly research articles. Design/methodology...

...Edda Tandi Lwoga; Frederik Questier Purpose – The study seeks to investigate factors that affect the adoption and use of open access in Tanzanian health sciences universities. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a cross-sectional questionnaire survey, 415 faculty members were selected...

... produced, perceived value of sharing, ethical constraints, and so forth. For instance, in some disciplines, the amount of data grows faster than the financial and technical means of sharing it, causing problems of scale and data deluge. Academic libraries Open access Research data Data sharing...

...Judith Mavodza Purpose This paper seeks to highlight the recent open access (OA) initiatives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The paper finds that the UAE open access initiatives may be the beginning of advances towards encouraging contributing to OA peer‐reviewed...

... higher education institutions will increase contributions to online learning sources. Open access courses were initiated on a grand scale by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In her book DIY U, Kamenetz (2010, p. x) mentions that MIT took its courses online in 2001...

...Joel Cummings Purpose The aim of this paper is to conduct a study regarding the indexing of open access journals in three large, commercially available full‐text aggregation databases and using Journal Citation Reports Metrics File to further explore the journals that were being indexed. Design...

...Getaneh Alemu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Metadata Open access Knowledge management Information networks David Weinberger, a thought‐provoking author, who had called for a total rethink of, not only the notion of classification systems, but also of the very...

... systems Electronic books Electronic journals Libraries Open access Intellectual property Digital Information: Order or Anarchy? is indeed a timely publication as it brings to the fore many of the current issues surrounding the creation and dissemination of digital information. Some...