Emerald | Electronic Library, The | Web 2.0 Interactivity in Open Access Repositories

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article available from The Electronic Library available from Emerald.  The abstract reads as follows: "Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview of open access (OA) repositories that have embraced Web 2.0 technologies. The main focus of the paper is to explore the occurrence of Web 2.0 tools used in the open repositories. Design/methodology/approach - Repositories having English as one of the interface/content languages and indexed in Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) were selected and analysed under different parameters. Findings - A total of 1499 open access repositories having English as one of the interface/content languages (75.82 per cent of total OA repositories) are developed from 81 nations and only 61 countries have most of their repositories Web 2.0 enabled. About 57 per cent (804) repositories make use of Web 2.0 tool/s, 43 per cent (608) have yet to avail benefits of Web 2.0 tools while 5.8 per cent remain inaccessible (87) during the study period. Though United States of America (USA) leads in terms of OA repositories, but the percentage of Web 2.0 enabled repositories is higher for United Kingdom (U.K) (75.27 per cent) as compared to USA (51.08 per cent). Really Simple Syndication (RSS), a syndication tool, is found in majority of repositories (736, 91.54%) followed respectively by Social Bookmarking and ATOM (syndication tool) in 228 and 160 repositories Research limitations/implications - Repositories have to develop a more productive Web 2.0 outlook in order to converge with an interactive learning model. Practical implications - Repositories have to develop a more productive Web 2.0 outlook in order to converge with an interactive learning model Originality/value - The research is first of its kind and can act as an opener to the issues related to use of Web 2.0 in open repositories."