Open Access Repositories in Computer Science and Information Technology: an evaluation

Bhat, Mohammad Hanief

doi:10.1177/0340035209346210

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“…The content number also showed a diversity with the majority of the repositories in the English language. Bhat (2009) while examining the OARs in the field of Computer Science and Information Technology found that EPrints was the most widely used software. Ghosh (2009) examined the developments in ETD repositories, in particular, PhD thesis repositories, in India and found that the number of items varied from one repository to another and DSpace stays a prioritized software for the repository development.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mittal and Mahesh (2008) have found that "DSpace, GSDL, and Eprints are becoming common solutions for the creation of digital libraries and repositories." Bhat (2009) while examining the OARs in the field of Computer Science and Information Technology found that EPrints is the most widely used software for the management of digital content.…”

Section: Software Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Gul

Bashir

Ganaie

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied. Design/methodology/approach Open directory of open access repositories (DOAR) as a data-gathering tool was consulted for extracting the desired data. Findings India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lead other South Asian nations in terms of IRs count. Majority of the IRs are operational in nature with higher number of operational IRs from India. In terms of record count, India leads the list. “Journal articles” outscore other content type and majority of the IRs have OAI-PMH as their base URL. DSpace stays a prioritized software for content management in IRs. Majority of the IRs have not defined their content management policies. English stays a prioritized language of the content dotting the South Asian IRs and majority of the IRs not providing usage statistics. A good score of IRs has incorporated Web 2.0 tools in them with RSS as the preferred Web 2.0 tool. A good count of the IRs has not customized their interface. Majority of the IRs have interface in two languages. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of the study is that the findings of the research are based on the data collected through the repositories indexed by Open DOAR. Originality/value The study tries to explore the characteristic features of IRs from the South Asian region.

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Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Software Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Gul

Bashir

Ganaie

2019

OIR

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“…The increase in journal prices is referred to as the “serials crisis”. This has forced libraries to unsubscribe from a number of journals and ultimately has restricted researchers’ access to scientific literature (Bhat, 2009; Gadd and Troll Covey, 2016; Houghton et al, 2009; Swan, 2010a). It indicates that the scholarly communication system is in a crisis that includes two separate but interconnected problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Faculty awareness, use and attitudes towards scholarly open access: A Pakistani perspective

Sheikh

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Open access is a new scholarly publishing model that aims to provide free access to scholarly information to all members of society. This study analyzes the awareness, use and attitudes of Pakistani faculty members towards scholarly open access. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from the respondents by using an online survey tool, Google Forms. The population of the study was the faculty members of 21 universities and higher education institutions located in Islamabad. A sample of 3000 faculty members were invited, through email, to participate in the study; of which 616 completed the survey, with a response ratio of 20.53%. Descriptive statistics and (SPSS) version 21.0 were used for data analysis. The findings of the study reveal that, although majority of the Pakistani faculty members (71.5%) were aware of the scholarly open access before this survey, their awareness level about open access-related resources and initiatives was very low. The Pakistani faculty members used open access venues more frequently to access scholarly contents rather than to publish their own research works. A lack of awareness to publish in open access venues, and publication fees of open access journals were the key challenges faced by the Pakistani faculty members. The attitudes of faculty members towards open access were very positive in all contexts. Large readership, impact factor, free access to readers and no publication fee were the key motivational factors for the faculty members to publish in open access journals.

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“…It should be noted that the development of the analytical framework was based on several surveys: Schöpfel [1], Bath [6], Chérifa Boukacem & all [8] and BenRomadhane [16].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[5 It proposes a wide variety of materials in digital form, such as research journal articles, preprints and post prints, digital versions of theses & dissertations, administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects." [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%