A Global Analysis of Open Access Books: A Study Based on Directory of Open Access Books

Authors

  • Sadagopan Dhanavandan Assistant Librarian, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram – 624 302 Dindigul Dt, Tamil Nadu,India

Keywords:

Open Access, DOAB, Year of Publication, Added on DOAB, Licenses

Abstract

Open Access Publishing provides free access to scholarly literature over the internet and has gained enormous momentum in the recent years. This paper discussed about a global analysis of open access books which are available in the Directory Open Access Books (DOAB). For this the required data has been collected from the open access directory from http://www.openbooks.org/ on 20th October 2015. Totally 3379 books were published as on and the first book was published in the year 1866 and the second book in 1867 but after the year 1962 there is gradually increased the publication of books. The maximum number of books i e., more than 300 were published in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.  During the period of 1866 to 2015 totally 3379 books were published but from the year November 2011,  487  books were added in the Directory. 

URL: http://ijkcdt.net/xml/06467/06467.pdf

Author Biography

Sadagopan Dhanavandan, Assistant Librarian, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram – 624 302 Dindigul Dt, Tamil Nadu,India

Library and Information Science

Downloads

Published

2016-06-30

How to Cite

Dhanavandan, S. (2016). A Global Analysis of Open Access Books: A Study Based on Directory of Open Access Books. International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 6(1). Retrieved from https://ijkcdt.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/ijkcdt/article/view/10

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2016 International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  • The Copyright of reserch papers already or will be published in the jounal shall belong to RIKCDT, and by submitting a manuscript, the copyright is consider to be transferred to RIKCDT.
  • No dispute shall be raised on matters RIKCDT already managed on research papers published in previous journal.
  •  Once publication of the paper is confirmed, Copyright tansfer agreement shall be submitted.