Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publis...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship ...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of visibility of researchers in African countries, in the Open Access (OA) arena and aims to identify...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the current state of debates surrounding Open Access (OA) in non-STEM disciplines. Design/methodo...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to situate the activity of digitisation to increase access to cultural and heritage content alongside the objectives of the...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Open Access and accessibility, to argue that accessibility is the most crucial feature, a...
Purposes The four major Subject Repositories (SRs), arXiv, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and PubMed Central (PMC...