This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open‐access (OA) repositories, 2005 to 2012,
using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. Initial repository development was focused …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important
and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publishing and …

The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual knowledge from Wikipedia
and makes it freely available on the Web using Semantic Web and Linked Data …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to open the special issue of Online Information
Review on open knowledge management in higher education. Its aim is to review the …

This paper presents an evolving framework of human information behavior. The framework
emerges from theories and empirical studies from a variety of research traditions, including …

Recent developments in ICT, especially the web, have led to the creation of a growing
number of digital library projects in the UK, USA and elsewhere. This new phenomenon is …

The act of sharing scientific knowledge is rapidly evolving away from traditional articles and
presentations to the delivery of executable objects that integrate the data and computational …

The process of documenting and describing the world's languages is undergoing radical
transformation with the rapid uptake of new digital technologies for capture, storage …

Research data management is rapidly becoming a regular concern for researchers, and
institutions need to provide them with platforms to support data organization and preparation …

The Fedora architecture is an extensible framework for the storage, management, and
dissemination of complex objects and the relationships among them. Fedora accommodates …