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The possibility of an Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) continues to inspire researchers and advocates. The question of a citation advantage has important implications not only for Open Access as an alternative scholarly publishing model, but…
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This paper attempts to join two of the biggest initiatives that are currently in vogue: open access and open source software. As for open access, the importance as a resource for locating and retrieving scientific and academic documents,…
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply and related matters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the reading of over 150 journals as well as…
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply and related matters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the reading of over 150 journals as well as…
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En el marco del XII Congreso de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe (SOLAR), efectuado a inicios de noviembre de 2010 en la ciudad de Heredia, Costa Rica, el Seminario permanente de “Bibliotecología, Información…
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The Open Access Open Data conference was held December 13 -14, 2010 in Cologne, Germany. The purpose of the conference was to examine the development of the Open Access movement during the last five years, how it is expected to change within the…
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The BooksOnline Workshop series aims to foster the discussion and exchange of research ideas and initiatives addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. The third workshop in…
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Purpose – Korea has been at the forefront of the open access movement since 2003, with four nation-wide repositories built to date. This study seeks to review their current status and to make proposals for further progress.…
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Nowadays a lot of systems are available for searching e-books, but the ways to retrieve relevant and meaningful information are difficult. To cope with this problem of retrieving relevant information efficiently we proposed a system, which allows…
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The last few years have seen the emergence of several open access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can be grouped broadly into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Several recent studies have shown how large the extent of OA…
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Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to measure the scholarly impact of LIS (Library and Information Science) open access journals (OA journals), most of which are not indexed by the Web of Science (WoS). In addition, the paper seeks to…
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of national libraries in developing national open access infrastructure and policy on the basis of the experiences of the National Library (NL) of Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The…
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The technological transformation of scholarly communication infrastructure began in earnest by the mid-1990s. Its effects are ubiquitous in the daily activities of typical researchers, instructors and students, permitting discovery, access to, and…
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The principles of open access are now widely known by all the actors involved in the scientific communication process (researchers, publishers, managers, academics, etc.). However, there is a clear need for practical studies of the situation of open…
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Open Access book publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) is on the rise. Initiatives are emerging on an international scale, ranging from providing Open Access to single titles to full-fledged Open Access book publishers. Most of…
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Professors contribute to Institutional Repositories (IRs) to make their materials widely accessible in keeping with the benefits of Open Access. However, universities' commitment to IRs depends on building trust with faculty and solving copyright…
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Se analiza el movimiento conocido en el mundo científico como data sharing, consistente en compartir los datos finales de investigación entre los científicos, con el objetivo de maximizar esfuerzos y recursos. En primer lugar, se revisa el concepto…
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In March 2011, as part of the background research to the FP7 Eurocancercoms project, the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) conducted an online survey of its members working in Europe to discover their experiences of and attitudes to…
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This chapter of Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) sets the stage for the report, providing introductions to the basic specification and basic concepts and explaining what readers will learn in subsequent chapters.
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Information and knowledge are the basis for good progress of humanity, the limits on their access and circulation have important implications regarding the development of science, technology and its position with society and human rights. This paper…
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