E-Books from Open Access Publishing in European Network (OAPEN) Library: A Scientometric Perspective
| Main Authors: | Bandi, Shekappa, Kannamadi, Satish |
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| Other Authors: | Asundi, Ashok, Horakeri, Mahesh, Jange, Suresh |
| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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KSCLA
, 2015
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/29065/1/OAPEN.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/29065/ |
Daftar Isi:
- OAPEN is an authoritative list of Open Access academic books. This study analyzes the contribution of open access literature in the various disciplines through OAPEN Library. Open Access Publishing covers a wide variety of subjects, countries and different languages. However, this study is limited to English language contributions. As on August 2015, there were 966 contributions from 59 publishers spread across 19 countries covering 18 different disciplines in social science and humanities. The study reveals that Australia was the highest contributing nation and among disciplines, society and social sciences is top most in the contributed content. Study also revealed Australian National University Press is the top most contributed publisher. Among authorship patterns, single authorship has emerged as the highest form.The highest ratio of eBooks which were contributed were published in between 2011-2015.