Abd Al-Majid Salih Bu Azza. Arab Researchers Promotions of Open Archives and Free Electronic Journal

Arab Researchers Promotions of Open Archives and Free

Electronic Journal : Sultan Qabus University Faculty as a Model

Dr. Abd Al-Majid Salih Bu Azza, Professor

Professor, Library & Information Department

Sultan Qabus University, Oman

Abstract

A study aiming at measuring the promotion of Arab researches for Open Archives and Free Electronic Journal, contained 60 researches in Sultan Qabus university in Oman, and discovered their opinion about open access resources. It found that 78.8 % of researchers did not publish articles in Free Electronic Journals, and 77.8 % do not aware about the international imitative of Open Access. Also discovered that researchers refuse publishing their articles in e-journals because of electronic articles are not considered in their universities.

Keywords

Open access, electronic journals, open archives.

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Abd Al-Majid Salih Bu Azza. Arab Researchers Promotions of Open Archives and Free Electronic Journal : Sultan Qabus University Faculty as a Model . - cybrarians journal . - No.10 (September 2006) . - Accessed <State here the date you accessed this page> .- Available at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/en/no10/openacess.htm

The full text of this article available in Arabic at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/no10/openacess.htm