Open Access and Discovery Tools: How do Primo Libraries Manage Green Open Access Collections?

نویسنده

  • François Renaville
چکیده

As of the end of April 2015, there are about 2,850 academic OA repositories (Green OA) of all kinds listed on OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org). Scholarly OA repositories contain lots of treasures including rare or otherwise unpublished materials and articles that scholars self-archive, often as part of their institution’s mandate (Harnad 2004). But it can be hard to discover this material unless users know exactly where to look.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1509.04524  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015