A Bibliometric Study on Open Access Journals in Library Science Discipline in DOAJ
Published: 2013
Author(s) Name: Parveen Kumar |
Author(s) Affiliation: Librarian, S. A. Jain College, Ambala City, Haryana, India
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Abstract
There are many online databases available on internet that provides open access journals of various disciplines. The facility to
access of these journals that is freely available on internet should be launch in the libraries. The present study deals with open access journals
accessible from Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in the subject of library science. Analyzed based on country, keywords, frequency,
etc. The analysis indicates that there was only one open access journal i.e. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association was available before
1990 in the field of library and information science (LIS). Only 19.04% journals have their EISSN. Almost one fourth journals were publishing
on half yearly basis.
Keywords: Bibliometric Study, Open Access, DOAJ, Library Science
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