Open Access repositories and journals for visibility: Implications for Malaysian libraries
peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-09-02
Summary:
Abstract: This paper describes the growth of Open Access (OA) repositories and journals as reported by
monitoring initiatives such as ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories), Open DOAR (Open
Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Directory of Web
Ranking of World Repositories by the Cybermetrics Laboratory in Spain and published literature. The
performance of Malaysian OA repositories and journals is highlighted. The strength of OA channels
in increasing visibility and citations are evidenced by research findings. It is proposed that libraries
champion OA initiatives by making university or institutional governance aware; encouraging
institutional journal publishers to adopt OA platform; collaborating with research groups to
jumpstart OA institutional initiatives and to embed OA awareness into user and researcher
education programmes. By actively involved, libraries will be free of permission, licensing and
archiving barriers usually imposed in traditional publishing situation.