...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...

...’ perceptions concerning open access publishing in Nigeria. The study revealed that almost half (161: 48.1 per cent) of the respondents indicated that they did not know about the IR in their institution, while only a few actually use IRs and ResearchGate (50: 14.9 per cent and 52:15.5 per cent) to self-archive...

...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...

...). Furthermore some subdisciplines, such as Archaeology and Linguistics, have long been proponents of data sharing and reuse. For instance, open access collections of primary archaeological data, such as the Archaeology Data Service (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk) and the Archaeobotanical Database...

...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...

... meet the standards of higher education institutions while embracing the needs of global learners. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Open access E‐learning Social media Higher education YouTubeEDU Pedagogical design Learning Regarding the contents of the most‐viewed...

...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...

... that fear of information overload has been with us for much too long and that too much information is not necessarily bad. Hence, he contends, the problem is not information overload per se, but filter failure. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Metadata Open access Knowledge...

... 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...