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Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories

Author : Koutras, Nikos
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799811336
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories written by Koutras, Nikos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s modern age where information is constantly being shared, intellectual property and protection remains a crucial aspect in economic development. Open access has emerged as a cutting-edge tool that allows writers and authors to share their work freely while still holding protection and security over it. With technology playing a crucial role in economic growth, open access practices could be a key contributor in the innovation and development of information and public policy. What researchers need is a comprehensive approach to the concept of open access practice, its foundations, and current status. Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of open access publishing practices in the digital age and applications within scientific and academic research. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as copyright protection, social justice, and European Copyright Framework, this book is ideally designed for researchers, scientists, policymakers, librarians, IT specialists, authors, publishers, academicians, and students seeking current research on the advancement of intellectual property rights in today’s technologically driven world.

Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research

Author : Baran, Mette Lise
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799810275
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research by : Baran, Mette Lise

Download or read book Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research written by Baran, Mette Lise and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research that has been presented primarily by quantitative research can benefit from the voice of the participants and the added value of the different perspective that qualitative research can provide. The purpose of mixed methods research is to draw from the positive aspects of both research paradigms to better answer the research question. This type of research is often used in schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations as they strive to address and resolve questions that will impact their organizations. Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research is an academic research publication that examines more traditional and common research methods and how they can be complimented through qualitative counterparts. The content within this publication covers an array of topics such as entrepreneurship, social media, and marginalization. It is essential for researchers, academicians, non-profit professionals, business professionals, and higher education faculty, and specifically targets master or doctoral students committed to writing their theses, dissertations, or scholarly articles, who may not have had the benefit of working on a traditional research team.

Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users

Author : Osuigwe, Nkem Ekene
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799811182
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users written by Osuigwe, Nkem Ekene and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information in today’s modernized world has become much more attainable with the use of technology. A resource that has fallen victim to this are library services. What was once a staple of knowledge and communication has failed to keep pace with recent advancements in information service providers. Library practitioners need to learn how to manage change, build influence, and adapt their services to remain relevant within local communities. Libraries can continue to play a key role in future aspects of information provision, but proper research is a necessity. Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users is a collection of innovative research that encapsulates practices, concepts, ideas, and proposals that would chart pathways for libraries of all types to envision and understand how to thrive and remain relevant in the competitive information provision environment. It is expected to motivate librarians and information scientists to probe further into how libraries would better serve user communities of the 21st century who have options of accessing information from sources other than from libraries. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, human design thinking, and alternative finance, this book is ideally designed for librarians, information specialists, architects, data scientists, researchers, community development practitioners, policymakers, faculty members, and students seeking current research on emerging advancements in library optimization.

Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

Author : Swan, Alma
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9230010529
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access written by Swan, Alma and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO issued this publication to demystify the concept of open access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Its focus is on scientific research from peer-reviewed journal articles. Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of the concept. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is therefore a priority. This publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Policy Guidelines is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access. The guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems.

Making Institutional Repositories Work

Author : Burton B. Callicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557537263
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Making Institutional Repositories Work written by Burton B. Callicott and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making International Repositories Work, arranged in five thematic sections, is intendede to take the pulse of institutional repositories - to see how they have matured and what can be expected from them, as well as introduce what may be the future role of the institutional repository. This collection of essays takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository, customized to the needs and culture of the home institution. -- from back cover.

Seeking Impact and Visibility

Author : Trotter, Henry
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1920677518
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Impact and Visibility written by Trotter, Henry and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars' work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.

Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications

Author : Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799898075
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications written by Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an information and knowledge society, access to information and knowledge is a basic human right, making equitable and fair access to information and knowledge paramount. Open Access (OA) plays a huge role in addressing inequities as well as broad-based and inclusive scientific progress. On the surface, the number of publications discussing OA issues from various angles are on the rise. However, what is missing is a comprehensive assessment of the extent of OA implementation and a discussion of how to proceed in integrating OA issues from various perspectives. The Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications articulates OA concepts and issues while demystifying the state-of-the-art knowledge domain in the areas of OA and scholarly communications from diverse perspectives as well as implications for the information and knowledge society. Covering topics such as ethics, copyright challenges, and open access initiatives, this book is a dynamic resource for publishers, librarians, higher education administrators, policymakers, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century

Author : Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803824352
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century by : Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield

Download or read book How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century written by Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.

Open Access

Author : Peter Suber
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262517639
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Open Access written by Peter Suber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

Open Access to Knowledge in Nigeria

Author : Kunle Ola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429822766
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Open Access to Knowledge in Nigeria written by Kunle Ola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the legal and policy dimensions of open access to research, education and public sector information with a focus on Nigeria. Kunle shows how open access has evolved across the world and how such initiatives could be implemented in Nigeria and other countries in the developing world. The author argues for a platform where Nigerians are able to freely connect to the ‘global library’, through the open access dual platforms of self-archiving and open access publishing, thereby providing access to knowledge. The importance of connecting local works to the ‘global library’ to increase visibility and impact of such works is also underscored. This book furthers our understanding of open educational resources as alternative avenues to accessing education and seeks to foster citizenry participation, good governance, accountability, democratic values and spur creativity and innovation through open governance and access to public sector information. Providing a framework for open access in developing countries, Open Access to Knowledge in Nigeria is an important read for scholars interested in knowledge production in Africa, development of the knowledge economy and the open access and Access to Knowledge movements.

Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030918214X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries to (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and their potential effects on international research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

Technology For Transformation

Author : Libbi R. Miller
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681234394
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Technology For Transformation written by Libbi R. Miller and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a platform for educators and researchers to unite educational technology and social justice. While educational technology is a rapidly changing and progressive field of research and practice, it remains largely separate from education for social justice. Current literature about educational technology is often approached from a technical, how-to perspective that emphasizes ways to implement technology into the classroom. Technology is often viewed as inevitable, yet neutral and value-free. Educational technology, however, is anything but neutral. The contributors collectively advance a hopeful discourse by exploring the potential of technology as a vehicle to transform and emancipate, while not forgoing a critically reflective measure of self-conscious critique of our own role as educators, students, or scholars in oppressive silences, constraints and conditions. This edited collection makes an important and unique contribution to the field, as it will be the first published volume to detail research, theory, and practice regarding student use of technology in achieving liberatory aims since IAP’s 2009 publication, ICT for Education, Development and Social Justice. The fields of educational technology and social justice are vast and applicable in many domains, including teacher education, graduate programs, and K-12 education. This work is intended to appeal to a diverse academic and professional audience of K-12 teachers, teacher educators, educational technology and social justice scholars, and policy makers. Scholars and academics instructing graduate-level educational technology courses can reference this edited collection as the most current text on socially just educational technology. Educational practitioners from teacher education programs and the K-12 sector may use this book as a source of ideas and inspiration to incorporate student use of technology toward emancipatory aims. This title could be adopted as a course text for both undergraduate and graduate education courses in: media literacy, digital literacy, distance education, education for social justice, and teacher preparation, and educational technology courses. Readers will also be able to use the book as a guide when critically analyzing their own professional practice, whether it is in research, working with K-12 students, or preparing future educators or scholars.

Introduction to open access

Author : Kanjilal, Uma
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231000748
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to open access written by Kanjilal, Uma and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Informatics Studies

Author : Raman Nair R
Publisher : South Indian Studies/Informatics Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Informatics Studies written by Raman Nair R and published by South Indian Studies/Informatics Studies. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Informatics Studies’ is a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal, focusing on areas that constitute the discipline of Information Science. The journal stresses areas on –International/National Information Infrastructures, Information Superhighway, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Politics, Cyber Law, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, Library Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards, Digital Divide, Open Educational Resources etc. Volume 1 Issue 1 (January – March 2014) of the journal contains: Editorial Tool that Shapes Basic Structure of Emerging Society Research Papers: E-LIS: Unique Model for Subject Specific Open Access Repository – by Antonella De Robbio and Imma Subirats Coll Social Science Research: A Comparative Study in Terms of Output From India, China and Brazil - B.M. Gupta and B.D. Kumbar; Paper from the Archive: Focus on Agricultural Information Transfer – by Ernest J Mann Detailed Biographical Note on Ernest J Mann Book Review: An Introduction to Informatics for Sanskrit Students – by Gangadharan Nair, G Short biographical notes entitled Inspiration and Strength: Editors and Contributors.

Open access infrastructure

Author : Smith, Ina
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231000756
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Open access infrastructure written by Smith, Ina and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Open Access to STM Information

Author : Anthi Katsirikou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110263742
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Open Access to STM Information written by Anthi Katsirikou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspectiveon the various issues that comprise "open access". Topics include copyright, best practices and management, open access and society, repositories, journals, publications and publishing, services and technology, quality andevaluation. The book offers a holistic focus on open access and can serve as a useful learning tool for students and professionals.

Sustainability of Scholarly Information

Author : G. G. Chowdhury
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856049566
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability of Scholarly Information written by G. G. Chowdhury and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability. Taking as its starting point the premise that digital information systems and services form the backbone of a knowledge society and digital economy, this book explores the challenges of ensuring sustainability of information in an evolving digital world. Author Gobinda Chowdhury attempts to find answers to five key questions in the context of scholarly information systems and services: How sustainable are today’s information systems and services? How can we ensure the sustainability of information throughout its lifetime? Can today’s information systems and services face the new economic challenges while providing easy and equitable access to information for everyone? Can the level and quality of information services be sustained over a long period of time? Can all these activities be performed in an environment-friendly manner? Chowdhury takes the approach of a research monograph based on literature review and meta-analysis of the issues and challenges associated with the various forms of sustainability of digital information systems and services. He proposes new models for study and research based on the critical analysis of developments in related areas. Illustrated with case studies and informed by the latest research, the chapters cover: - Economic sustainability of information - Environmental sustainability of information - Social sustainability of information - Sustainability of digital libraries and information services - Emerging issues and policies - Sustainability of information models - Research issues and challenges. Readership: This cutting-edge text is a must-read for those involved in setting policy and direction for information institutions, digital library managers and developers, researchers and students on LIS and digital information courses.