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Article: Be creative, determined, and wise: open library publishing and the Global South.
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- Computers in Libraries
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Libraries throughout the world are increasingly involved in the production of scholarly publications. Much of this has been thanks to the growth of open access (OA) publishing in all its forms, from peer-reviewed "gold" journals to "green" self-archiving, and electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) repositories. As a result, more and more of the world's scientific, medical, and scholarly research is freely available online. Libraries' quickly evolving capacity as OApublishers holds great promise for students, teachers, and researchers--not to mention farmers, entrepreneurs, and civil society groups--in developing regions of the world. The vast majority of research is ...