... repositories specify data upload types, with “restricted” being the most common, followed by closed types. Open access is predominant in data access, followed by restricted access and embargo periods, while a small number restrict access entirely. Originality/value The present study will help gauge...

... that their work appears in open access journals or open access repositories resulting in improved access to quality, peer-reviewed scientific information and faster scientific and technological advances. The authors also seek to gauge Portuguese author's familiarity with open access, the importance they attach...

...Scholastica Chizoma Ukwoma; Colette Ogugua Onyebinama Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges and opportunities of librarians in federal and state universities in Nigeria in facilitating access to open access resources. Design/methodology/approach Using a positivist...

... 2020 14 11 2020 14 11 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Change Open access Workforce Crisis COVID-19 FAIR Crises almost always bring to light not only threats but also opportunities, including a chance...

...Kwame Kodua-Ntim; Madeleine C. Fombad Purpose This article suggests strategies for the usage of open access institutional repositories (OAIR) at university libraries in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Pragmatism paradigm, mixed methods research approach and convergent parallel mixed method...

... broader than just flipping a journal pricing model from subscription to open access. This paper also seeks a viable alternative model that supports the growth of African scholarship and the dissemination thereof. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a descriptive research methodology, which...

... Data Open access Open data Open science Research infrastructures Research libraries The main challenges to the state of the African research landscape are the lack of national governments' commitment to fund research, the poor state of research infrastructures, the persistent brain drain...

... open access without any charges, settled for only a third of their original demands (Grove, 2015). It remains to be seen if this uprising will succeed and if it will spread to other regions. Will there be a compromise that ultimately favours Elsevier? Or could the refusal of the libraries to compromise...

...Jane Johnson Otto; Laura Bowering Mullen Purpose From laying the groundwork for the successful passage of a university-wide open access (OA) policy, through the development and planning that goes into a successful implementation, to “Day One” when the official university policy goes into effect...

... of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) “data the majority of institutional repositories are built using open-source software.” The most popular IRs software platforms are Dspace, eprints.org, Fedora. This study was undertaken to realize the following objectives: 09 02 2017 16 02 2017 24...

...Ida Farida; Jann Hidajat Tjakraatmadja; Aries Firman; Sulistyo Basuki Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to build a conceptual model of Open Access Institutional Repositories (OAIR) in Indonesia academic libraries, viewed from knowledge management (KM) perspective. Design...

... to AgriCat and WorldCat in MARC21. WorldCat is the largest union catalogue of books in the world held by OCLC. The existing catalogue was uploaded in batch mode and processed by OCLC and added to AgriCat and WorldCat. Digitization ICT Open access ETD Institutional repository KrishiKosh...

... and the Syracuse University Libraries (SUL) that advances open access and the scholarly communication issues among graduate students, the proposed plan for a dissertations and theses retrospective digitization project which will continue to strengthen the partnership between University Archives, university...

...Tereza Stoyanova Trencheva; Tania Yordanova Todorova Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide a comparative retrospective analysis of Bulgarian, Turkish and Croatian Open Access (OA) journals added in Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) in the period 2002-2013. Design/methodology...

...Charles Joseph Greenberg Purpose – Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) distinguishes itself from other ETD databases by providing immediate access to theses that are freely available online. The Republic of Armenia is a small geographical area in Central Asia with a population of only...

... E. Sidorko can be contacted at: peters@hku.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Knowledge exchange Knowledge transfer Open access Academic libraries Hong Kong Outreach Institutional repository Community participation Community engagement Well‐being Partnership...

...Mary Anne Kennan Purpose Online open access (OA) to research publications comes to scholarship as a vision that makes sense and is congruent with the aims of science and scholarship. It is argued that research, often funded out of the public purse, should be a public good. Given its visionary...