Beyond Open Access to Open Publication and Open Scholarship
This article explores a moment of opportunity to imagine a new humanities scholarship based on radical openness, beyond the level of access to scholarly content...
Étiquette : open access
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...
Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature
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...
The quandary between communication and certification
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship ...
Barriers to Open Access uptake for researchers in Africa
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...
Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines
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...
Opening Access to collections: the making and using of open digitised cultural content
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...