Our pdf catalogue offers you bite sized information. Open access journals search engine oajse back to home about us. Evaluating econtents beyond impact factor a pilot study. Pujar deputy librarian, indira gandhi institute of development research, gen vaidya marg, goregaon east, mumbai400 065, email. Direct links allow you to find out more and even access a sample issue for free online. Contributions in lis, library and information science, are welcome. South african journal of libraries and information science. Lis journals in directory of open access journals international. Open access journals oajs represent a significant portion of the literature in library and information science lis. All journal articles featured in journal of the australian library and information association vol 69 issue 1. These articles represent the publication output of only 51 percent of the. The primary advantage of open access journals is that the entire content is available to users everywhere regardless of affiliation with a subscribing library.
Open access, lis, doaj, eresources, open access journals, serial crisis. Journal of library and information studies directory of. Pdf open access journals in library and information. Library management refereed journal which discusses strategy and innovative developments in the management of libraries and information services. Doaj includes only one arabic lis open access journal. Using relevant oa journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Open access federation for library and information science. Open access spurred by the internet has brought in new vistas for dissemination of scholarly content in almost all the. The covenant journal of business and social sciences cjbss is a publication of the college of business and social sciences, covenant university, ota, nigeria. The main purpose of this paper is to measure the status and quality of library and information science lis open access oa journals in the social science citation index ssci.
It is a highly topical issue in both library and information science lis and the scholarly community at large. This paper presents a bibliometric study of library and information science journals archived in the directory of open access journals. Rufai, gul and shah 2011 found a total of 144 open access journals in the three databases doaj, and jgate pertaining to the field of library and information science. Informationsciencejournalsindoajabibliometricstudy. A total of 72 lis journals are focused and included in the paper.
It also gives a list of open access e journals produced in india. Discover the library and information science journals. Library and information science open access journals in. Fundamentals of library and information science abdulwahab olanrewaju issa, ph. Our subject matter experts regularly monitor predatory publisher lists and industry information to ensure. The journal of the library and information research group, available on open access, publishes both refereed and nonrefereed submissions. Open access oa is a mechanism by which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Jelis supports scholarly inquiry in library and information science lis education by serving as the primary venue for the publication of research articles. Pdf how open is open access research in library and information. Open access academic research from top universities on the subject of library and information science. The directories, databases, and repositories in this list are all free to use though some. The paper enumerates the impact factors of open access journals. Charting the landscape of open access journals in library and.
Lagos journal of library and information science ljlis aims to publish articles, short communications and conference reports which will. Library and information science research in australia. Open access, library and information science, arab. The study investigates library and information science lis journals that published research articles between 2003 and 20, which were about open access oa and were indexed in lis databases. September1,2015 onthe28thofapril2012thecontentsoftheenglishaswellasgermanwikibooksandwikipedia projectswerelicensedundercreativecommonsattributionsharealike3. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from. Journal of education for library and information science offers authors whose research has been funded by a national, regional, or international research funder the following green and gold open access options to comply with research funding requirements. Open access means that teachers and their students have access to the latest research findings throughout the world. Scholarly communication in library and information. The impact factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. Charting the landscape of open access journals in library.
Library and information science open access journals in arab. Pdf the paper defines the open access journals and gives a brief description about the open access e journals gateways available world wide. With open access strictly defined according to the 2001 definition, or. Awareness and use of open access journals by lis students. Jelis supports scholarly inquiry in library and information science lis. The study of 100 open access journals in library and information science is represented in the article. The journal is formerly known as pakistan journal of library and information science issn print 16804465, online 23099569. Search for articles in the following journals ariadne b sides brazilian journal of information science. Pdf on jan 1, 2012, reyaz rufai and others published open access journals in library and information science. Open access spurred by the internet has brought in new vistas for dissemination of scholarly content in almost all thedisciplines. The study investigates library and information science lis journals that published research articles between 2003 and 20, which were about open access. It also includes fulltext monographs, pamphlets and theses, plus a subjectspecific thesaurus. Pakistan journal of information management and libraries. Open access and the humanities is thoughtprovoking and remarkably balanced, perhaps due to eves dual role as open access advocate and publisher.
Journals in library and information science elsevier. Investigates the trend of open access journals publishing in the field of library and information science in terms of language, topleveldomain, country and time. African journal of food, agriculture, nutrition and development. The journal of education for library and information science jelis is a fully refereed scholarly periodical that has been published quarterly by the association for library and information science education alise since 1960. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them.
Lis journals, open access, selfarchiving 1 introduction and background information open access oa is an initiative that advocates for free, online access to scientific literature. It provides hundreds of fulltext journals covering all related subjects, including librarianship, classification, information management and the history of library studies. The present study is a bibliometric analysis of select 10 open access journals in the field of library and information science lis. Eve approaches all of these complex issues in a spirit of philosophical investigation, and does not avoid examination of related issues such as academic freedom and research assessment.
The present study is based on the data taken from the directory of open access journals. Library and information science research electronic journal in doaj. Pdf the study investigates library and information science lis journals that published research articles between 2003 and 20, which. Using authoritative print as well as online directories, the study identifies 124 e journals in the field of lis that are accessible freely, either partially or fully, on the web. This study contributes to current efforts to raise awareness of the lis oa literature by focusing on the characteristics of journals publishing under an open access gold model. The purpose was to investigate the journals oa policies, ascertain the degree to which these policies facilitate oa to publications, and investigate. Research publications that are distributed online, free of cost or other barriers. Library and information science open access articles. According to dictionary for library and information science, an open access journal is a scholarly periodical that makes the full text of the articles it publishes universally and freely available via the internet in easily read format, in some cases by depositing them immediately upon publication without embargo in at least one widely recognized open access repository. Open access journals in library and information science. Journal of education for library and information science. The authors give an overview of the open access journals available in the field of library and information science and highlights the importance of these journals. This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of open access oa e journals in the library and information science lis field. The main motivation for most authors to publish in an open access journals is increased visibility and ultimately a citation advantage suber, 2006.
Pakistan journal of information management and libraries pjiml, issn online 24097462, is an open access, refereed journal. Open access library and information science journals on. Pdf open access journals in library and information science. To understand the characteristics of lis oajs, 65 english language lis journals were. All these open access journals were accessed through doaj site and analyzed based on various parameters like country, languages, subject headings, keywords, their accessibility and availability of archives of online journals in lis. The status of open access library and information science. Most publishers own the rights to the articles in their journals. International journal of information dissemination and technology, 72, 116119.
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