E-Prints Revolution: Publication and Access Redefined

Ayesha Taranum; Shalini R. Urs

doi:10.17821/srels/2005/v42i4/44625

Authors

Ayesha Taranum
Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore 570006
Shalini R. Urs
Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore 570006

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17821/srels/2005/v42i4/44625

Keywords:

Scholarly Information, Research Worker, Information Access, Peer Reviewed Papers, Authors Self Archiving, Open Access

Abstract

The speed at which rate of scholarly information is increasing is frenetic. Catalyzing this astonishing growth are the technological developments. The dream of a researcher to have free, instant access to peer reviewed papers and data, is now a possibility, all thanks to the process of author self-archiving. To archive especially the research works in institutional repositories has been possible due to the movement called Open Access. This paper takes a brief look at the development of the movement and a parametric study of some of the best-known archives in the scholarly world.

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