Collaboration across disciplines, the increasing size of those collaborations, and the
application of information technologies to scientific problems have contributed greatly to the …

The Open Access movement of the past decade, and institutional repositories developed by
universities and academic libraries as a part of that movement, have openly challenged the …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the development of institutional repositories in
New Zealand, exploring factors affecting the adoption and success of institutional …

Purpose–This paper aims to assess practical aspects of implementation of institutional
repositories (IRs) in Africa with reference to the University of Nairobi and provide useful …

Historians and historical quantitative social scientists, motivated by a renewed interest in
quantitative history and by sophisticated tools for digital infrastructure, are developing data …

This chapter describes the calls by eminent scientists, leaders of international science
organisations and scientific academies, and political leaders for better communication …

This dissertation addresses a specific aspect of the broad area of communication systems
used among researchers. This research has undertaken to establish a broader view of the …

This study is the first comprehensive study to measure open access compliance under
Australia's earliest national-level open access policy, the National Health and Medical …

Abstract Institutional Digital Repositories (IDRs) throughout the World are at a critical point in
their development. The barriers are multifaceted and derive from the different stakeholders …

Describes the basic concept of Open Access (OA) and Open Access Repository (OAR), its
meaning, development path, statements and declarations at national and international level …