Access to Scientific Literature by the Conservation Community
Authors : Daisy Larios, Thomas M. Brooks, Nicholas B.W. Macfarlane, Sugoto Roy Access to the scientific literature is perceived to be a challenge to the biodive...
Étiquette : Accessibility of Knowledge
Can Accessibility Liberate The “Lost Ark” of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are “Places of Public Accommodation”
Authors : Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham For any body of knowledge – an ark of power or a corpus of scholarship – to be studied and used by people, it needs...
Documentation and Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge by Library Personnel in Selected Research Institutes in Nigeria
Authors : Adebola Aderemi Adeyemo, John Oluwaseye Adebayo Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and practices are usually unwritten; relying on oral transmission and human ...
‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
Authors : Vincas Grigas, Simona Juzėnienė, Jonė Veličkaitė Introduction Recent developments in the field of scientific information resource provision lead us to...
Facilitating access to free online resources: challenges and opportunities for the library community
The volume of online content continues to grow exponentially, and much of it is freely available. Some of this content is of potentially significant value for t...
Access to Digital Libraries for Disadvantaged Users …
Access to Digital Libraries for Disadvantaged Users : “Digital libraries, designed to serve people and their information needs in the same way as traditio...
Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012 Key…
Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012 : “Key Findings : ••The role of internet search engines in facilitating discovery of scholarly resources has continued t...