Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

The Role Of Lis Professional In Open Educational Resources And Its Impact In Bangladesh, Dr. Md. Azizur Rahman, Sumitra Mitra Biswas, Dr. Subrata Biswas

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Introduction- This study aims to explore of the role of LIS Professionals in open educational resources (OERs) and its impact on Bangladesh. In addition, there is a focus on raising awareness and improving open educational resources.

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to provide quantitative information on the growth and development of the LIS professionals in OER in Bangladesh. In addition, the focus is on raising awareness and improving open educational resources.

Research problem- The study is about acquiring data sources, facing huge problems related to field of LIS Professionals in OER in Bangladesh. LIS professionals in the …

An Appraisal Of Open Access Institutional Repositories Use By Academic Staff In Federal Universities In North Central States Of Nigeria, Bello Salahudeen Hakeemat Mrs, Oluwatoyin Oyeyemi Obinyan Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This research was carried out to evaluate the Awareness and Use of Open Access Institutional Repositories by Academics in Federal Universities in North Central States of Nigeria. The research questions raised among others include: How often do academic staff use Open Access IR for dissemination of research outputs in Federal Universities in North Central States of Nigeria? What challenges are academic staff faced with in accessing Open Access IR in Federal Universities in North Central States of Nigeria? Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the research. The target population are 3,547 academics in the Federal Universities in the North …

Factors Affecting The Development Of Open Digital Repositories In Pakistan: A Chief Librarian's Perspective, Bashir Ahmed, Rubina Bhatti Prof. Dr., Shakeel Ahmad Khan Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present chief librarians’ viewpoint about open repositories in Pakistan. This study appraised the factors that affecting development of open repositories in Pakistan.

Design/methodology/approach – The study collected data by mean of In-depth literature review, scan of Open Access Directory of repositories (OpenDOAR), through interview & discussion with chief librarians of renowned university libraries.

Research limitations – This study discovered the factors that affect building open digital repositories in Pakistan through collected data by means of literature review, interview & discussion with chief librarian. The results are limited to interview interpretation …

Open Educational Resources (Oer) Initiatives: Global And Indian Quo Vadis, Phulasmita Nath

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Galloping speed of technological development and intense research activities in ICT over last couple of decades has facilitated opportunities of rapid expansion in creation, distribution and consumption of educational resources across the world. While fulcrum motivational factor for such technological advancement is indeed profit driven, a substantial gain has also been drawn by academic communities using the same set of technologies for greater social good. Open Source Software, Creative Commons, Open Access Initiatives have paved the way for Open Educational Resources (OER). With these impetuses, nations are trying to bridge the gaps between information have and haven’t and reduce the …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Open Access Digital Humanities Publications, Deep Kumar Kirtania

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the open access digital humanities scholarly literatures during 2001 to 2020. This paper examines the distribution of year wise growth, authorship pattern, identifies the most productive authors, countries, publication source and institutions and most trusted research areas. The bibliographic data required for this present study has been collected through the Lens database and analyzed on the basis of various indicators of bibliometrics assessment. The study found that digital humanities research on open access platforms is growing rapidly. The study showed that that the developed countries such as …

Extending The Open Access Using Extensions: Freeing Scholarly Communication From The Walled Garden, Subhajit Panda, Rupak Chakravarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

IFLA/FAIFE strongly advocates intellectual freedom as the basis of democracy and the core of the library concept. The spirit and philosophy of Open Access are in sync with FAIFE owing to its visible role in sharing intellectual freedom for building information democracy. The present paper is dedicated to the new and emerging technology-driven tools for researchers and academicians to access or discover OA research more easily and effectively. The main focus of the paper is to introduce to the readers about the various technology-driven tools for effective and immediate Open Access (OA) research discovery. Under this objective, mission and services …

Contributions Of Open Access Journals In Library And Information Science Indexed In Scopus Database: A Metric Study, Rajkumar Thangavel, Jeyapragash Balasubramani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose. The primary purpose of this paper is to measure the present status of publications, authors, citations, authors per publication, citations per publication, country, journal rank, Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), Cite Score, h-index, authorship productivity, and collaborative nature of open-access (OA) library and information science (LIS) journals in the SCOPUS database.

Material and Methods. The study selected 61open access journals of LIS in the SCOPUS database as a sample and assessed their current status. SCOPUS database was used to extract the bibliographical and citation data, and SCImago was used to extract the Country, Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and …

Growth And Development Of Indian Open Access Scholarly Publications: A Bibliometric Assessment, Deep Kumar Kirtania

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this study is to trace out the growth and development of Indian open access scholarly publications during the period of 1970 to 2020. The data required for this study has been collected through the Lens database and analyzed on the basis of various indicators of bibliometrics assessment. This study showed that India has published a large number of articles (417887) in open access publications. The most significant findings in this study are that India ranks 13th in the world with positive growth, Indian Institute of Science has contributed the most of the papers, dominance of science …

School Libraries As Promoters Of Open Educational Resources To Galvanize Education: An Exploratory Study, Sagender Singh Parmar Phd Scholar, Dr Rashmi Kumbar Assistant Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In the COVID pandemic, educational institutions have adopted an online education delivery mode to ensure continuity in the students' learning process. The school teachers started taking online classes, and libraries delivered resources through WhatsApp or developed digital library webpages/portals. In this scenario, the importance of Open Educational Resources (OERs) cannot be overlooked, as they are free from copyright issues and can be reused by anyone without any prerequisite author permissions. The present study made efforts to identify the advocacy of such OERs by CBSE affiliated Indian public schools of Chandigarh, Delhi and Delhi West regions identified from the school directory …

Researchers' Perception And Attitude Towards Open Access (Oa) Resources: An Alternative Model And Important For Academic And Research Libraries, Perumal Ganesan, Gunasekaran Mangai

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open Access (OA) resources has become an alternative resource as the pandemic outbreak has forced all the educational institutions remain closed. It has become a great source for the research scholars as the libraries have stopped traditional functioning of the libraries and focussing more on online-based services. This study has been conducted based on the data collected from the research scholars of Bharathidasan Uiversity, India, one of the prestigious universities has got highest rank. The study results showed that research scholars were aware of OA resources such as e-journals, e-books, e-theses and dissertations, Open Access Coursewares, whereas they were not …

Digital Publishing Habits, Perceptions Of Open Access Publishing And Other Access Publishing: Across Continents Survey Study, Subaveerapandiyan A, Yohapriya K, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this transformative world, changes are happening in all the fields, including scholarly communications are trending in the academic area of publication and access to the resources, especially emerging the wave of open access, open science and open research. The study aims to investigate the digital publishing behaviour of manuscript authors. This study applied a quantitative approach and survey questionnaire method. The researcher collected the data from 251 authors, editors, and peer-reviewers from 45 countries worldwide. The research mainly focuses on the importance, need, and author preference for open access journals. Everyone cannot use and access subscription-based journals; the critical …

A 2020 Scenario Of Brics Institutional Repositories Through Opendoar, Dr. Ravi Shukla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The open-access initiatives enhance the global visibility of an institution’s scholarly research output. This initiative has helped the scientists, teachers, students as well as researchers by providing visibility to their research outputs and increases the impact of their work as well their parent institution. Also, this has facilitated the users to access global information at a single location. In this study, the researcher tries to find out the scenario of institutional repositories of BRICS countries to open access in the year 2020 using OpenDoar (open directory of open access repositories). The list of 400 repositories from BRICS countries has been …

Open Access And Self-Publishing In The Academic Communication: A Case Study, Vimal Kumar, Dhanya P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Commercial publishing houses dominate the academic publishing sector, and they discourage the sharing culture to protect business interests. Authors and institutions have no control over the publishing processes and lost the copyright on the works after publishing. The traditional model of publishing gives more financial commitment to authors. Self-publishing gives full control to the authors over the publishing processes. Open Access model gives the publications faster impact and greater user engagement. This article shares the experience of self-publishing an Open Access book in a higher education institution.

Growth Of Open Access Literature On Library And Information Science During 2011-2020: A Scientometrics Analysis, Rudra Narayan, Pritam Kumar Pati, Sidhartha Sahoo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study, we attempted to analyse the quantitative growth of open access publications on library and information science education research. The literature data obtained from Scopus database and scientometrics methods were deployed to analyse the publications originated during 2011-2020. The study shows that open access papers on Library and information science education (LIS) has grown expontially and significant amount of research papers published by both academics and working professionals. Scientometric study of the research on Scopus indexed open access Library and information science (LIS) journals is essential to investigate the existing literature to identify a suitable theory for new …

Assessment Of Open-Access Institutional Repositories Of China On Directory Of Open Access Repositories (Opendoar), Satyajit Nayak, Binay Kumar Parhi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present-day institutional repositories play a vital role in promoting higher education systems and research and development. Individual organisations showcase their intellectual works using the Open access institutional repository platform. The present study focuses on the current status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories. Data were collected from the global Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories (DOAR) website. And collected data have been analysed and represented in graphical and tabular formats to clearly understand the study results. The Authors also assessed the Chinese’ contribution to various parameters such as Year wise growth pattern, Nature of Institutional Repository, disciplines, Content, software and …

Open Educational Resources (Oer) In Nigerian Universities: Promotion And Awareness Opportunities For Academic Libraries For A Path To Higher Education Success, Ngozi Maria Nwaohiri Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cost of scholarly and educational publications has escalated and necessitates the shift from teaching, learning and research materials that are not easily accessed because of restrictive copyright laws and high cost to an opportunity of using the World Wide Web which helps institutions, students and faculty members meet equity of access missions, a platform for everyone to share, use and reuse teaching and learning materials with the resultant effect of increasing both student and faculty member achievement and educational goals. The study investigated promotion and awareness opportunities for academic libraries on the imperativeness using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Nigerian …

Trustworthiness Of Institutional Repositories In Academic Libraries In South Africa, Tlou Maggie Masenya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The open access movement in scholarly communication has grown considerably over the past two decades and it has driven an increase in the number of Institutional Repositories (IRs). Academic libraries in South Africa have so far made great advancement towards developing IRs to preserve, manage and to provide open access to digital scholarship of the universities. Open access’s fundamental principle is to make the intellectual output more visible, accessible, searchable and useable by any potential user, and that is indispensable in the quest for long-term access and delivery of authentic digital information. Although many researchers believe that open access has …

Open Access And Free Resources On The Internet: Awareness And Use During Covid-19 Pandemic, Prayangi Vishal Matonkar Ms, Keshav R. Dhuri Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Internet is a huge source of free and openly available information. However, the awareness about open source information amongst faculty and students is not known. The objective of this study is to explore the awareness and use of open access resources (OARs) by Faculty and students of Ponda Education Society’s (PES’s) colleges. A questionnaire-based survey method has been used in this research. A questionnaire was designed in Google Forms and was sent to 400 library users. A total of 278 (69.5%) library users filled in the form. The findings shows that 110 (39.6%) of respondents are not aware of …

Libre Open Access In Science Journals: An Analytical Study Of Doaj, Pooja Kumari, Heenam Gakhar, Dr. Atasi Sinhababu, Dr. Jyoti Sharma, Prof Rupak Chakravarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is based on metadata extracted from the well known and authoritative global Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals managed by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA), United Kingdom. Disciplines chosen for the quantitative study belong to Science as categorised in DOAJ were analysed using different criteria like language, Creative Commons (CC) licence, publisher country, etc.,. Findings of the study reveal that there are 104 Zoology Journals, 218 Chemistry Journals, 111 Botany Journals, 139 Geology Journals, 242 Physics Journals, 85 Microbiology Journals, 38 Astronomy Journals, 52 Physiology Journals, 11 Anatomy …

Institutional Digital Repositories: A Systematic Review Of Literature, Bijan Kumar Roy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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 such as organization, funding body, publishers, users, academicians, administrators, and the governmental policies. The problems that have been identified after reviewing existing literatures are basically three folds viz. technical (hardware, software, open standard), non-technical (administrative, policy issue) and cultural (social acceptance, advocacy and promotion etc). The main objective of the study is to discuss several key parameters that are required to be considered before developing institute-specific IDR. Here, the following four issues viz. advocacy and …

Promoting The Educational Research Through An Open Access Institutional Repository Of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Sco) Countries: An Analytical Study, Satyajit Nayak, Ayush Kumar Patel, Avadhesh Kumar Patel, Bijayananda Pradhan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study proposed to focus on the current status of SCO countries Open Access Institutional Repositories. Nowadays, institutional repositories play a vital role in promoting higher education systems and research and development. Data were obtained from the Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories (DOAR) website. Then collected data have been analysed and represented in graphical formats to clearly understand the study results. The researchers also assessed the SCO countries’ contribution to various parameters such as type of repository, disciplines, languages interface, and software used to build institutional repository. The study's findings revealed that out of 214 repositories, the highest …

Webometric Analysis Of Open Access Digital Repositories Of Agricultural Sciences In Continents Of Oceania, Sanjib Ghosh, Dr. Bijan Kumar Roy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper focuses on the Webometric analysis and visibility of websites of digital repositories of Agricultural sciences in Oceania and also discusses several link structures and therefore the presence of the web through different indicators like Internet access, WebPages, and link count. Throughout this study, a popular search engine like Google has been used to analyze and measure the presence on the web of those agricultural repositories. The result shows that DAFWA Research Library, Australia occupies first place with 0.2719 % Self-Link WIF presence amongst 04 digital agricultural repositories in Oceania continents. aCQUIRe: CQUniversity's institutional repository ranks first position with …

National Policy Framework For Building Etds In India: With Special Reference Of Ugc Regulations And Open Doar Institutional Repositories, Dattatraya Trayambak Kalbande

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

To create awareness about responsible conduct of research, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing among student, faculty, researcher and staff is the main challenge behind higher educational institutions in India. Up to the 2005 theses, dissertations, research papers and rare collection in most of the Indian libraries, are kept in closed access and it is very difficult to the researchers to access them as a reference source for the further study as well as to avoid duplication, to avoid plagiarism to maintain research ethics in the research, but after that in …

A Comparative Study Of India And Australia Open Access Repositories In Opendoar, Alekha Karadia, Dr. Jyotshna Sahoo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

An open access repository or open archive is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate, and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research. OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. Its repositories provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. This paper deals with Comparative analysis of India …

Research Productivity And Collaboration Pattern Of National Institute Of Science Education And Research (Niser), Bhubaneswar During 2008-2019: A Scientometrics Study, Bijayananda Pradhan, Sidhartha Sahoo, Pritam Kumar Pati, Shriram Pandey

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to evaluate the quantitative growth and development of research productivity of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar in terms of publications as reflected in Scopus database. This study analyzed annual growth of publications, most preferred journals, open access publishing journals, Subject wise distribution of papers, top cited papers during the year 2008-2019. The study also analyzes country, organization collaboration and funding bodies in National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar. The study assesses the intellectual output of the researchers produce by NISER and the findings of the study will be a matter of …

A Bibliometric Study On Open Access Library And Information Science Journals In Doaj, Selvam M, Amudha G

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open Access is a form of practice through which academic publications are shared publicly online. Open Access enables Books, Journals, Research articles, Thesis and all other educational resources that shared online with peer reviewed or set of quality metrics. Open Access Journals provide an unlimited access of scholarly published articles to the user. It also facilitates the users to enrich their knowledge on various disciplines with no cost. Open Access Journals promotes unbiased information dissemination and maintains high transparency in publishing contents with international standards. The aim of the present study is to analyze the open access Library and Information …

Impact And Scope Of Open Access Research Data: Perceptions Of Library And Information Professionals, Naimat Ullah Shah, Salman Bin Naeem Dr., Rubina Bhatti Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to prove that those scholarly articles belonging to subjects with changing proportions of open-access implementation have an incredible research impact if the research articles are openly accessible online than by paid access. This study also explores the impact of open access research data in Pakistan through the library and information science (LIS) professionals' perception. The foundation of this study includes surveying the research method. The LIS professionals were surveyed to assess their perception towards the possibly better impact of open access research data than non-OA ones. This study indicates that free-access research data have a better research …

Indian Institutional Repositories (Irs) Reflected In The Directory Of Open Access Repository (Doar): A Case Study, Ramesh Kuri, Madan Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open access resources are an essential part of the academic community by which students, researchers, and even faculties get useful resources to pursue their academic requirements. Open access repositories enhance the visibility of scholarly publications and improve the collaboration among the authors with the support of global networks. Open access institutional repository provides a platform to showcase the intellectual works of an individual organisation. At present a total of 5414 repositories were found on DOAR from all countries on different subjects. Out of 5414, 96 repositories were from India. The analysis presented in this study is based on selected criteria …

Global Visibility Of Open Access Institutional Repositories Of Saarc Countries: An Explorative Study, Madan Singh, Ramesh Kuri, Gireesh Kumar T. K. Dr., Kunwar Singh Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The concept of open access extends perceived advantages to its stakeholders, especially in the preservation of scholarly publications through digital repositories. Open Access (OA) improves collaboration among the authors with the support of global networks. There has been remarkable progress worldwide in creating institutional repositories to provide open access to resources. Open access institutional repositories (OAIR) provide a stable platform to showcase an individual's intellectual works without a hitch. This study explores the visibility of open access institutional repositories of SAARC countries that are reflected in the Directory of Open Access Institutional Repository (DOAR). Collected data has been analyzed and …

Towards Institutional Repository Sustainability: Lecturers Awareness, Patronage And Content Submission To The University Of Cape Coast Repository, Ebenezer Martin-Yeboah, Christopher Kwame Filson, Kwame Boohene

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Having been hardest hit by the crisis of inadequate funding for journal subscription, academic institutions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa have embraced open access institutional repositories as alternative means of scholarly communication. Upon the embrace of this approach to knowledge sharing, the University of Cape Coast’s Institutional Repository, UCCSpace, like most academic repositories, has had to contend with the issues of sustainability in the area of content recruitment. The study thus assesses lecturers’ awareness and perception of institutional repositories in the context of content population and sustainability of IRs. Through the Descriptive Survey Design, the study engages 714 lecturers in a …