... aims to compare the citation advantage of open access and toll access articles from four subfields of computer science. Design/methodology/approach This research studies the articles published by two prestigious publishers: Springer and Elsevier in the author-pays charges model from 2011 to 2015...

... of development (Janavi and Shahmoradi, 2019). The latest assessments indicate that paywalls on the Internet reduce access to three-quarters of academic articles. Somehow, access to papers should be free and online (Harnad, 2011). Open access journals are a solution to this condition. After years of efforts...

...Vrushali Sainath Dandawate; Dhanamjaya M. Purpose Open access movement is getting increased in Asia and the Pacific and has been started in the form of subject gateways, informal collections of articles on web pages and directories. Many Asian countries adopted the transition to Open Access...

... Harzing’s Publish or Perish search interface climate impact society (past or historical or ancient) Information retrieval Bibliometrics Google Scholar Web of Science Open access Online databases Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) are two of the main tools to identify...

...Joseph W. Greene Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact and techniques for mitigating the effects of web robots on usage statistics collected by Open Access (OA) institutional repositories (IRs). Design/methodology/approach A close review of the literature provides...

... concludes with recommendations for further investigation and development to foster open access to research results produced along with PhD theses. Originality/value – ETDs are an important part of the content of open repositories. Yet, their potential as a gateway to underlying research results has...

...Lovemore Kusekwa; Aston Mushowani Purpose – The paper aims to focus on the current state of open access (OA) initiatives in Zimbabwean universities. The paper specifically reports the initiatives at Zimbabwean universities regarding institutional repositories that promote OA and other digital OA...

...Mu‐Yen Chen; Edwin David Lughofer; Ifeanyi J. Ezema Purpose This study seeks to examine the management of local content materials for open access institutional repositories in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach A survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 85 librarians...

...Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how extensively LOCKSS/CLOCKSS, Portico, and e‐Depot provide long‐term digital archiving for the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses publicly available...