Beams of Particles and Papers. The Role of Preprint Archives in High Energy Physics
In high energy physics scholarly papers circulate primarily through online preprint archives based on a centralized repository, arXiv.org, that physicists simpl...
Étiquette : open repositories
Principles of the Self Journal of Science: bringing ethics and freedom to scientific publishing
I present the core principles of the “Self-Journal of Science” (SJS), an open repository as well as a new paradigm of scientific publication. Rooted in Science ...
Acceptance and Adoption of Open Access Publication (OAP) in University Libraries in South East Nigeria
This study examines the kinds of open access scholarly publication or information resources accepted and adopted by federal university libraries in South East N...
Open access disciplinary repository in S&T: a potentiality study for SAARC countries
Most of the SAARC countries are unable to subscribe to high-priced research publications. Open access disciplinary repositories could provide them access to lat...
Implementing Institutional Repository in Nigerian Universities : Status, Challenges, Prospects, and the Role of Librarians & Libraries
This is a report of the study carried out in late 2013. In this paper, the authors identify the extent of adoption of Institutional Repository (IR) in various u...
The role of arXiv, RePEc, SSRN and PMC in formal scholarly communication
Purposes The four major Subject Repositories (SRs), arXiv, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and PubMed Central (PMC...
Institutional policy implementation at University of Minho, Portugal
This case study describes the implementation process of the Open Access institutional policy at the University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. Starting with a brie...