User Awareness and Attitude towards on Open Access Resources in GFGC Libraries in North Karnataka: A Case Study

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

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Managing Open Access Resources

Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems ◽

10.1007/978-1-4612-2268-2_25 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 233-245

Author(s):

Matthias Ruth ◽

Bruce Hannon

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Resources

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Open access resources in the academic libraries’ collection development (The experience of RAS SB State Public Scientific and Technological Library)

Scientific and Technical Libraries ◽

10.33186/1027-3689-2019-5-78-93 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 78-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Irina Lakizo ◽

Natalya Podkorytova ◽

Larisa Bosina

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Academic Libraries ◽

Information Support ◽

Collection Development ◽

Resource Base ◽

Open Access Resources ◽

Strategic Element ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Systematic Collection ◽

Technological Model

The authors discuss the study findings and the Library’s experience in integrating open access resources into the resource base of the information support offered to Siberian researchers and scholars. The dynamic technology of resources organization and use calls for continuous monitoring of the open access resources. Using the open access resources as an object of collection development improves the effectiveness of user services and preservation of socially significant content which impacts the libraries’ importance within the system of scientific communications. The library collection as a library’s strategic element is transforming with widening the formats, generic and specific limitations, and integrating traditional collections with the open access resources. This results in the sophisticating organizational and technological model of collection development. The efficiency of integrated open access library services demonstrate the users’ interest to and demand for them. The open access resources have been being increasingly included into the relevant collection development at the academic libraries. The systematic collection of open access resources can operate as a compensational technological system against other expensive resources. Integrating the open access resources into the collections of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch proves to be naturally determined and impacts the prospects for collection development.

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Enhancing an Open-Access Linguistics Journal Archive with Library of Congress-like Metadata: A Case Study of the Effectiveness for Improving Discovery

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics ◽

10.17161/kwpl.1808.15945 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Geoff Husic

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Library Of Congress

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Next generation Open Access analytics: A case study

Information Services & Use ◽

10.3233/isu-210106 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Tim Lloyd ◽

Sara Rouhi

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Third Party ◽

Future Research ◽

Critical Component ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Innovative Project ◽

Industry Standard ◽

External Stakeholders

A critical component in the development of sustainable funding models for Open Access (OA) is the ability to communicate impact in ways that are meaningful to a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, including institutional partners, funders, and authors. While traditional paywall publishers can take advantage of industry standard COUNTER reports to communicate usage to subscribing libraries, no similar standard exists for OA content. Instead, many organizations are stuck with proxy metrics like sessions and page views that struggle to discriminate between robotic access and genuine engagement. This paper presents the results of an innovative project that builds on existing COUNTER metrics to develop more flexible reporting. Reporting goals include surfacing third party engagement with OA content, the use of graphical report formats to improve accessibility, the ability to assemble custom data dashboards, and configurations that support the variant needs of diverse stakeholders. We’ll be sharing our understanding of who the stakeholders are, their differing needs for analytics, feedback on the reports shared, lessons learned, and areas for future research in this evolving area.

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