Discipline-specific open access publishing practices and barriers to change: an evidence-based review

A Severin, M Egger, MP Eve, D Hürlimann - F1000Research, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Many of the discussions surrounding Open Access (OA) revolve around how it
affects publishing practices across different academic disciplines. It was a long-held view …

Las revistas científicas en América Latina hacia el camino del acceso abierto: un diagnóstico de políticas y estrategias editoriales

N Sánchez-Tarragó, A Caballero-Rivero… - …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Este trabajo presenta los resultados más relevantes de un diagnóstico sobre el estado de
las políticas y estrategias de los comités editoriales de las revistas científicas …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular disease risk prediction in sub-Saharan African populations—Comparative analysis of risk algorithms in the RODAM study

D Boateng, C Agyemang, E Beune, K Meeks… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Validated absolute risk equations are currently recommended as the basis of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk stratification in prevention and control strategies …

Attitudes towards open access: A meta-synthesis of the empirical literature

A Togia, S Korobili - Information Services & Use, 2014 - content.iospress.com
The aim of the present study is to report the results of a meta-synthesis of the empirical
literature on scholars' attitudes towards Open Access (OA) journals. A total of 15 articles …

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

A Sheikh - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Open access behaviours and perceptions of health sciences faculty and roles of information professionals

ET Lwoga, F Questier - Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study sought to investigate the faculty's awareness, attitudes and use of open
access, and the role of information professionals in supporting open access (OA) scholarly …

[PDF][PDF] Awareness and use of open access scholarly publications by LIS lecturers in Southern Nigeria

AO Obuh, DO Bozimo - International Journal of Library Science, 2012 - academia.edu
The study examined the awareness and use of open access scholarly publications by
Library and Information Science (LIS) lecturers in southern Nigeria. Based on this, three (3) …

[PDF][PDF] Open access publishing in Africa: Advancing research outputs to global visibility

IJ Ezema, OB Onyancha - African Journal of Library, Archives & …, 2017 - researchgate.net
The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment
as well as the challenges of providing global visibility to African research outputs. A …

Awareness and use of electronic databases as determinants of research productivity of academic staff in Nigerian private universities

B Adetomiwa, AO Okwilagwe - Global Knowledge, Memory and …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The quality of teaching, research and community service of lecturers coupled with
their publication in any university system may depend on the quality of the electronic …

Citations, mandates, and money: Author motivations to publish in chemistry hybrid open access journals

GM Nelson, DL Eggett - Journal of the Association for …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid open access refers to articles freely accessible via the Internet but which originate
from an academic journal that provides most of its content via subscription. The effect of …