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...
Étiquette : open repositories
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...
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights
Institutional repositories (IRs) established at universities and academic libraries over a decade ago, large and small, have encountered challenges along the wa...
E-thesis repositories in the world: A critical analysis
The advent of Information Communication & Technology (ICT) has resulted into a revolution in the ways of production, dissemination, preservation and accessi...
Open Access and Discovery Tools: How do Primo Libraries Manage Green Open Access Collections?
The Open Access (OA) movement gains more and more momentum with an increasing number of institutions and funders adopting OA mandates for publicly funded resear...