E-Dissertations: Access and Restrictions (EDAR) Survey 2014 Report
“European and American studies on electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) reveal that one part of digital PhD theses, even if not confidential, is limit...
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A Current Snapshot of Institutional Repositories: Growth Rate, Disciplinary Content and Faculty Contributions
“INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine current institutional repository (IR) content in order to assess the growth and breadth of content ...
Identification of Core Journals and Analysis of Collaboration Networks Among Researchers in Ibero America
“INTRODUCTION In this paper we survey scientific production published in Ibero American journals in four subject areas: Medicine, Education, Administratio...
All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines
“BACKGROUND This article sets out the economic problems faced by the humanities disciplines in the transition to gold open access and outlines the bases f...
Open Access in Higher Education-Strategies for Engaging Diverse Student Cohorts
“With growth in online education, students gain tertiary qualifications through a mode more suited to their demographics such as work and life balance, le...
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...
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, m...