Building open access institutional repositories for global visibility of Nigerian scholarly publication

Library Review

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 473-485

  Ezema, Ifeanyi J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Electronic publishing; Impact factors; Institutional repositories; Nigeria; Open access; Scholarly communication; Scholarly visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960339702     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242531111147198     Document Type: Review

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