Cristina Nicoleta Albu, Carmen Predescu, New Trends for Information Dissemination: Open Access and Digital Repository
New Trends for Information Dissemination: Open Access and Digital Repository
The rapidly increasing use of digital content in research and in the dissemination of knowledge is a main characteristic of modern science. Digital age help researchers disseminate their research findings and improve their research impact offering them different channels and options such as acces to scientific and scholarly journals, publish in OA, use of institutional repository. The aim of the paper is to discusses about OA movement, the challenges and the opportunities offered by OA and digital repositories for researchers and institutions. Also, the paper provide a summary of the experience of Central Library of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest concerning the building of ROMDOC digital repository and the work done so far.
Keywords: Information dissemination, Open Access, Digital repository
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