Contribution of ROAR and OpenDOAR in Open Access Movement and Universal Access to Scholarly Information
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2016-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Open Access initiative (OAI) is the wide discussed subject in the world of information and communication
technology. The open access philosophy rapidly became popular and a number of universities
and research institutions spontaneously came forward to provide open access to their scholarly
communications, research outcomes and electronic journals. In the present paper, the meaning,
definition and the present scenario of the Open Access initiative, as well as the problems and improvement
of the Open Access initiative has been discussed. Contribution of ROAR and OpenDOAR
in the field of Open Access initiative has been discussed in detail. The data collected from the secondary
sources of information and presented in a tabular form for easy understanding of the LIS professionals
and masses to know the importance of the Open Access initiative for giving access to scholarly
communications for wider audience.
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10th Convention PLANNER-2016, North-Eastern Hill University Shillong, Meghalaya, November 09-11, 2016
Keywords
Open Access Repositories, Institutional Digital Repositories, ROAR, OpenDOAR