The evolution of open access to research and data in Australian higher education
« Open access (OA) in the Australian tertiary education sector is evolving rapidly and, in this article, we review developments in two related areas: OA to scho...
Étiquette : open repositories
Degrees of Openness Access : Restrictions in Institutional Repositories
« Institutional repositories, green road and backbone of the open access movement, contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metada...
The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories
Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Goog...
EPISCIENCES – an overlay publication platform
This paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repo...
Knowledge Management and Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Libraries: Perils and Solutions in Indian Perspective
« ICT is a great facilitator for Knowledge Management. ICT enables creation of digital repositories for sharing knowledge transcending many limitations. Digital...
The NSF/NIH Effect: Surveying the Effect of Data Management Requirements on Faculty, Sponsored Programs, and Institutional Repositories
« The scholarly communication landscape is rapidly changing and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of data management. Mandates by major funding age...
Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005-2012: Past growth, current characteristics and future possibilities
« This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It sho...