Open Access: An Overview

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2008-11-06

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INFLIBNET Centre

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This paper highlights into the importance of Open Access (OA) and Institutional repository initiatives to the system of scholarly communication. Open Access & Institutional repositories—digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities—respond to two strategic issues facing academic institutions. This paper examines institutional repositories & Open Access from these complementary perspectives, describing their potential role and exploring their impact on major stakeholders in the scholarly communication process. Through literature survey and review the author(s) identify the relevant works on Open Access and its meanings etc.

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Open Access, Open Software, Institutional Repository

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