Open Access Resources for Social Science: A Quantitative Study

D. Chinnadurai; M. Tamizhchelvan

doi:10.51983/ijiss.2019.9.2.615

Authors

D. Chinnadurai Research Scholar, DLIS, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India & Librarian, Madurai Institute of Social Sciences, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
M. Tamizhchelvan Deputy Librarian and Librarian i/c, DLIS, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2019.9.2.615

Keywords:

Open Access, Open Access Resource, DOAJ, DOAB, Open DOAR

Abstract

This was aware of all about the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), and Directory of Open Access Repository (Open DOAR). The abbreviations pop up on familiar with all blogs and websites. This article explores for the value of the open access directories and amount or number of journals, books and repositories registered for social science subject, number of publishers contributed and most dominated language in registered resources in above directories are discussed in detailed.

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