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Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In 3 Lmi* Countries, Andrew Cano, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

* Lower-Middle-Income country (World Bank definition): Gross National Income (GNI) average < 4,000 $US

1 Pedagogical content is valuable and popular. Age of the material is not a factor.

2 There is a significant international audience and talent pool for no-cost free-access publishing.

3 The higher value of the institutional repository is its access to metrics of impact and outreach.

What is a FOLO ? Free Online Learning Object

Downloads by country, April 2018--March 2019 (12 mos.)

25 % of IR downloads to LMI countries; 37% to other international; 38% to US.

Analysis of downloads and patterns in India, Philippines, & Nigeria.

International Contribution In Two Indian Lis Journals: A Comparative Study, Lambodara Parabhoi, Annesha Ghosh Librarian

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The two leading Indian LIS journals namely Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology (DJLIT) facilitate immediate open access to the published papers in worldwide and indexed in the Scopus database. Thus, it enhances the utility and visibility of both the journals and makes it very conducive for international authors to contribute their papers. This paper aims to determine the trends of the international contribution to two LIS reputed journals namely Annals of Library and Information Studies and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology. The research sample consists of 106 journal …