Open Access and Institutional Repositories — A Developing Country Perspective: A case study of India

IFLA Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-250

  Ghosh, S B ^a   Kumar Das, Anup ^b  

^a INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

developing countries; India; institutional repositories; open access archives; open access literature; open publishing; South Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998068105     PISSN: 03400352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0340035207083304     Document Type: Article

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