OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN THE FIELD OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DOAJ: A STUDY

 OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN THE FIELD OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DOAJ: A STUDY
Dr. Monawwer Eqbal
Librarian
INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad (UP)
Syed Ahtisham Raza Naqvi
Asst. Librarian,
 INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad (UP)
Pushpendra Pratap Singh Sengar
Sr. Asst. Librarian,
INMANTEC Institutions, Ghaziabad (UP)

Introduction
Open Access (OA), a relatively new model for academic publishing, provides free online digital content that is usually written by scientist and scholars for peer-reviewed journals and articles in the scientific, technical and medical (STM) niche. Utilization of any piece of information can be worldwide only when it is accessible freely without any barrier. Research is going all over world, and it is just like a dump if it is not available to all, which necessitates the free access to this vital information
Online electronic journals are available on the internet as open access journals. Open access online electronic journals can be accessed by anyone at anytime without any subscription charges. Open access means users can read, download, copy, print, or link to the full texts of these articles. Open access electronic journal can play vital role in academic institutions as journals subscription costs are increasing with little increase in library budgets. However these valuable collections are difficult to overview and integrate in the library and information services provided by libraries for their user constituency.
Definition of "open access" from the BOAI: "By 'open access' mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
E-journals:
Electronics journals have become major resources in scholarly research. The history of e-journals began with the full text database offered by DIALOG in 1980. With the emergence if internet; revolution took place in the journal and periodical publication sector.  Now major publishers are using internet and the web as a global way for making their publication available to all. Access to e-journals mean rights to access.
David Pullinger and Brain Schkel (1990) defined e-journals as “one whose text input may be entered directly by a computer or by other file transfer mechanism in a machine readable form, editorial processing is facilitated by a computer and those article are thus made available in electronic form to readers.”
Lancaster (1995) opined that “an electronic journal is created for the electronic medium and is available only in this medium”. In general the e-journal can be defined as “a journal that is available in electronic form through online host called e-journal.



Objectives of the Study
Make awareness amongst the faculty and research scholars of the Library and Information Science discipline through the library professionals;
To provide an exhaustive list of Library and Information Science subject journals so, that the library professionals easily helped them;
To know the country-wise distribution of open access journals on the DOAJ;
To know the languages in which is widely open access journals are published;
To know the year-wise distribution of open access journals in field of Library and Information Science;
To know the usefulness of the Library and Information Science e-journals to other disciplines.

Scope and Limitation of the Study
 The said study is limited to the Library and Information Science E-journals which are listed on the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). However, Researcher also discussed in brief about the different open access publishers and directories on the internet contain the different subject disciplines. For the study, all the Library and Information Science e-journals enlisted on the DOAJ since their publication started from 1975 has been taken.
Some of the publishers and directory for open access are given below.
Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br/) : Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity that would not otherwise be readily available to researchers in the developed world, or even within the country of publication. Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement.

BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/): BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge. The site provides access to over 100 journals covering all areas of biology and medicine. Searchable and browsable. Registration required for searching.

Cochrane Library Online (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com)
Residents in a number of countries or regions can access The Cochrane Library online
for free through a ‘provision’ or a special scheme.

Free Medical Journals (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/):The most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. An open access medical textbook has been also publishing. The free medical journals site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the internet.


Molecular Diversity Preservation International (http://www.mdpi.com/): Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) is a Swiss based nonprofit organization for deposit and exchange of molecular and biomolecular samples. MDPI is also an open access publisher in chemistry since 1996. MDPI.com (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a platform for peer-reviewed, scientific open access journals which is operated by MDPI AG, based in Basel, Switzerland. MDPI publishes over 70 diverse electronic, open access journals. MDPI publishing activities are supported by more than 3000 active scientists on our journals' international editorial boards including several Nobelists. More than 60,000 unique authors already published with MDPI, and 150,000 scholars are in the pool of reviewers. MDPI.com counts more than 2,4 million webpage views monthly.


MedIND (http://medind.nic.in/) : MedIND, Provide Online access to full-text of Indian biomedical periodicals to the users in within and outside India. As such no such resource is available that provides full-text of major Indian biomedical periodicals. There are some Indian journals that are available full-text over the Internet, but as such no attempt has been made to compile all the journals at one place and make them available Online from one point. There are other journals of which just the contents, with or without abstracts are available over the Internet. Hence, a need is there for one such central resource that would make available full-text of the Indian biomedical journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/): At first Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication in Lund/Copenhagen, the idea of creating a comprehensive directory of Open Access Journals was discussed and hence the valuable service started for Global Research and Education Community. It was launched in 2003 with the aim of increasing the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. This service covers free full text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Includes listings for journals from a variety of subject areas and countries. Searchable, and browsable by subject or journal title from Lund University Libraries, Sweden. Directory of Open Access Journals is hosted, maintained and partly funded by Lund University Libraries Head Office. DOAJ also receiving finding from Open Society Institute, SPARK, SPPARK Europe, BIBSAM and Axiell.
Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory provided to  comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Today, DOAJ lists over 4250 journals published in 100 countries in more than 50 languages covering all scientific subjects with more than 1575 titles searchable at article level (covering almost 300,000 articles). DOAJ is browsed for the present paper.
l. No.
Name of the Journal
ISSN / EISSN
Open URL
Publisher
Country
Language
Start Year
1
ACIMED
10249435
/ 15612880
http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1024-9435&lng=en&nrm=iso
Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas
Cuba
Spanish
1993
2
Alexandría : Revista de Ciencias de la Información


18120962
/ 19911653
http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/alexandria/
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Peru
Spanish, Portuguese
2006
3
Anales de Documentación
15752437
/ 16977904
http://revistas.um.es/analesdoc
Universidad de Murcia
Spain
Spanish, English, French
1998
4
Annals of Library & Information Studies
09725423
/ 09752404
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/66
INSDOC, NISCAIR
India
English
2002
5
Arabesques
12690589
http://www.abes.fr/abes/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabId=386
Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (ABES)
France
French
2000
6
Ariadne
13613197
/ 13613200
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
UKOLN. University of Bath
United Kingdom
English
1996
7
Arquivística.net
18084826
http://www.arquivistica.net/ojs/index.php
Arquivística.net
Brazil
Portuguese, English, Spanish
2005
 8
B Sides
21556687
http://ir.uiowa.edu/bsides/
University of Iowa
United States
English
2010
9
Biblionline


18094775
http://www.ies.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/biblio/index
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Brazil
Portuguese
2005
10
Bibliosphere
13118803
http://bibliosphere.nbu.bg/
NBU Library
Bulgaria
Bulgarian
2001
11
Bibliotime Rivista Elettronica per le Biblioteche
11283564
http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/bibliotime/
Università di Bologna
Italy
Italian
1998
12
BIBLOS : Revista do Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação


01024388
/22367594
http://www.seer.furg.br/
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish
2004
13
BiD : Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació


15755886
http://www.ub.edu/bid/
Universitat de Barcelona
Spain
Catalan, Spanish, English, French
1998
14
Bilgi Dünyası


13023217
http://www.unak.org.tr/BilgiDunyasi/index.html
Üniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphanecileri Derneği
Turkey
Turkish, English
2002
15
Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios
02136333
http://www.aab.es/Joomla/installation/index.php
Asociacion Andaluza de Bibliotecarios
Spain
Spanish
1999
16
The Bonefolder : an e-Journal for the Bookbinder and Book Artist


15556565
http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/
The Book Arts Web - Peter D. Verheyen
United States
English
2004
17
Brazilian Journal of Information Science


19811640
http://www2.marilia.unesp.br/revistas/index.php/bjis
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Brazil
English, Portuguese
2007
18
Bulletin des bibliothèques de France
00062006
/ 12928399
http://bbf.enssib.fr/
French School of Librarianship and Information Science
France
French
1985
19
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
19316550
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/index.html
American Society for Information Science and Technology
United States
English
1995
20*
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
00257338
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/72/latest/


PubMed
United States
English
2001
21
Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal
10894667
http://www.iclc.us/cliej/
Internet Chinese Librarians Club
United States
English
1996
22
Ciência da Informação


01001965
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0100-1965&lng=en&nrm=iso
Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Tecnologia - IBICT
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish, English
1997
23
Ciencias de la Información
08644659
/ 16064925
http://cinfo.idict.cu/index.php/cinfo
Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo Profesional en Ciencias de la Información
Cuba
Spanish
1999
24
Code4Lib Journal


19405758
http://journal.code4lib.org/
Code4Lib
United States
English
2007
25
Collaborative Librarianship
19437528
http://www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/
Regis University
United States
English
2009
26
Communications in Information Literacy
19335954
http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil
Communications in Information Literacy
United States
English
2007
27
Coordinates : Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. Series A


15533247
http://www.stonybrook.edu/libmap/coordinates/SeriesA.htm
American Library Association
United States
English
2005
28
Coordinates : Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. Series B
15533255
http://www.stonybrook.edu/libmap/coordinates/SeriesB.htm
American Library Association
United States
English
2005
29
Cuadernos de Documentación Multimedia
15759733
http://revistas.ucm.es/?name=Revistas2&id=CDMU
Universidad Complutense
Spain
Spanish
2003
30
Cybermetrics : International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics
11375019
http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/
Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica
Spain
English
1997
31
Cybrarians Journal


16872215
http://journal.cybrarians.info/
cybrarians, Cairo
Egypt
Arabic

2004
32
D-Lib Magazine
10829873
http://www.dlib.org/
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
United States
English
1995
33
Datagramazero
15173801
http://www.dgz.org.br/
IASI - Instituto de Adaptação e Inserção na Sociedade da Informação
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish
2000
34
DIGITHUM


15752275
http://digithum.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/
Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (FUOC)
Spain
Catalan, Spanish, English
1999
35
E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
17048532
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
Canada
English
1999
36
EBIB Bulletin
15077187
http://ebib.info/biuletyn/
Polish Librarians Association
Poland
Polish
1999
37***
Electronic Journal of Health Informatics
14464381
http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi
Central Queensland University
Australia
English
2006
38
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management
14794411
http://www.ejkm.com/main.html
Academic Conferences International Limited
United Kingdom
English
2003
39
Encontros Bibli: revista eletrônica de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação


15182924
http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish
1996
40
Enl@ce Revista Venezolana de Información, Tecnología y Conocimiento


16907515
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?tipo_busqueda=CODIGO&clave_revista=7671
Universidad del Zulia
Venezuela
Spanish
2004
41
European Journal of ePractice
1988625X
http://www.epractice.eu/journal
ePractice.eu
Spain
English
2007
42
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice


1715720X
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
University of Alberta
Canada
English
2006
43
Evolution of Science and Technology


20292430
/ 20292449
http://www.est.vgtu.lt/index.php/est
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Lithuania
Lithuanian, English, German
2009
44
GMS Medizin-Bibliothek-Information


1865066X
http://www.egms.de/dynamic/en/journals/mbi/index.htm
German Medical Science, Düsseldorf
Germany
German, English
2006
45
Hipertext.net
16955498
http://www.hipertext.net/web/pag100.htm
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spain
English, Spanish
2003
46
Human IT: Tidskrift för Studier av IT ur ett Humanvetenskapligt Perspektiv


14021501
/1402150x
http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith//info.htm
Högskolan i Borås
Sweden
Swedish, English
1997
47*
Infodiversidad


1514514X
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/HomRevRed.jsp?iCveEntRev=277
Sociedad de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas
Argentina
Spanish, Portuguese
2004
48
Informação & Informação


14142139
/ 19818920
http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/index
Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish
1996
49
Informação & Sociedade: Estudos


18094783
http://www.ies.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ies
Universidade Federal da Paraiba
Brazil
Portuguese
1991
50
Información, Cultura y Sociedad
15148327
/ 18511740
http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php/script_sci_serial/pid_1851-1740/lng_es/nrm_iso
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
Spanish, Portuguese
2002
51*
Informatica Economica Journal


14531305
/ 18428088
http://revistaie.ase.ro/
Inforec Association
Romania
English, Romanian
1998
52
Information Research: an international electronic journal


13681613
http://informationr.net/ir/
Professor Tom Wilson
United Kingdom
English
1995
53
Information Technology and Disabilities
10735127
http://people.rit.edu/easi/itd.htm
E A S I: Equal Access to Software and Information
United States
English
1994
54
Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline


15479684
/15214672
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/informingscij
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
1997
55
Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Learning and Learning Objects
15522210
/ 15522237
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/ijello
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
2005
56
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management


15551229
/ 15551237
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/ijikm
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
2006
57
International Journal of Digital Curation
17468256
http://www.ijdc.net/
The Digital Curation Centre
United Kingdom
English
2006
58
International Journal of Doctoral Studies
15568881
/ 15568873
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/ijds/
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
2006
59
International Journal of Legal Information
07311265
http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/ijli/
International Association of Law Libraries
United States
English
2005
60


International Research: Journal of Library and Information Science
22490213
http://irjlis.com/index.htm
International Research : Journal of Library and Information Science
India
English
2011
61
International Review of Information Ethics
16141687
http://www.i-r-i-e.net/
International Center for Information Ethics
Germany
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French
2004
62
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
15475840
/ 15475867
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/iisit/
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
2004
63
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship : a quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries


10921206
http://www.istl.org/
Association of College and Research Libraries
United States
English
1991
64
JLIS.it
20381026
http://leo.cilea.it/index.php/jlis/
University of Florence
Italy
Italian, English
2010
65
Journal of Digital Information


13687506
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
Texas Digital Library
United States
English
1997
66
Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences


1013090X
http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/
Tamkang University Press
Taiwan
Chinese, English
2003
67
Journal of Electronic Publishing
10802711
/ 10802711
http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/
University of Michigan Press
United States
English
1995
68
Journal of eLiteracy
17454360
http://www.jelit.org/index.html
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
English
2004
69*
Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries
11784407
http://www.jhidc.org/index.php/jhidc
University of Otago
New Zealand
English
2007
70
Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences


18463312
/ 18469418
http://jios.foi.hr/index.php/jios/index
University of Zagreb
Croatia
English
2006
71
Journal of Information Architecture
19037260
http://journalofia.org/about/
Research & Education Group in IA (REG-iA)
Denmark
English
2009
72
Journal of Information Literacy
17505968
http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/index
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
United Kingdom
English
2007
73*
Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations
15571319
/ 15571327
http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/jiito
Informing Science Institute
United States
English
2006
74*
Journal of Library and Information Science


03633640
http://jlis.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/
National Taiwan Normal University
Taiwan
Chinese, English
1975
75
Journal of Library and Information Studies


16067509
http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Chinese, English
1999
76
Journal of Library Innovation


1947525X
http://www.libraryinnovation.org/
Western New York Library Resources Council
United States
English
2010
77
Journal of Library Science
year: 1998 Continued by Journal of Library and Information Studies
10183817
http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=5&lang=us
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Chinese, English
1985End
78
Journal of Medical Internet Research
14388871
http://www.jmir.org/
Gunther Eysenbach
Canada
English
1999
79
Journal of southern academic and special librarianship
1525321X
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/index.html
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
Canada
English
1999
80
Journal of the Association for History and Computing
19375905
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jahc/index.html
American Association for History and Computing
United States
English
1998
81
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association
17086892
http://pubs.chla-absc.ca/journal/jchla
National Research Council of Canada
Canada
English, French
2006
82
Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries
18410715
http://www.eahil.net/journal/
European Association for Health Information and Libraries
Netherlands
English
2005
83
Journal of the Medical Library Association
15365050
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/93/latest/
Medical Library Association
United States
English
2002
84
The journal of the Rutgers University Library.
00360473
http://jrul.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jrul/index
Rutgers University
United States
English
2005
85
Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings


2160942X
http://newprairiepress.org/journals/index.php/CULS
Kansas State University
United States
English
2011
86
Knjižnica : Revija za Področje Bibliotekarstva in Informacijske Znanosti


00232424
/ 15817903
http://revija-knjiznica.zbds-zveza.si/
Zveza Bibliotekarskih Društev Slovenije, Narodna in Univerzitetna Knjižnica
Slovenia
Slovene
1999
87
Knygotyra


02042061
http://www.leidykla.eu/mokslo-darbai/knygotyra/
Vilnius University Press
Lithuania
Lithuanian, English
2000
88
Liber Quarterly : The Journal of European Research Libraries


14355205
http://liber.library.uu.nl/
Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services
Netherlands
English
1999
89
Library and Information Research : Research into Practice for Information & Library Services
17561086
http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/index.html
CILIP Library & Information Research Group
United Kingdom
English
2007
90
Library Philosophy and Practice
15220222
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/lpp.htm
University of Nebraska, Lincoln libraries
United States
English
1998
91*
Library Student Journal


19316100
http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj
University at Buffalo
United States
English
2006
92
Libreas : Library Ideas


18607950
http://www.libreas.eu/
Institut für Bibliothekswissenschaft Berlin
Germany
German
2005
93
Libres: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal
10586768
http://libres.curtin.edu.au/
Curtin University of Technology
Australia
English
1996
94
Liinc em Revista
18083536
http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc
Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Inofrmação e Conhecimento (LIINC)
Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish, English
2005
95
Medizin-Bibliothek-Information
End year: 2006 Continued by GMS Medizin-Bibliothek-Information
16169026
http://www.agmb.de/mbi/mbiauswahl.html
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen
Germany
German
2001
96
New Knowledge Environments
19236328
http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE
University of Victoria
Canada
English
2009
97
North Carolina Libraries
00292540
http://www.ncl.ecu.edu/index.php/NCL
North Carolina Library Association
United States
English
2002
98
Open Journal of Knowledge Management


2190829X
http://www.community-of-knowledge.de/en/open-journal-of-knowledge-management/
Community of Knowledge
Germany
German, English
2010
99
Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science


16804465
http://pu.edu.pk/home/department/10/Department-of-Library-and-Information-Science/pjlis/index.html
University of the Punjab
Pakistan
English
2006
100
Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
19119593
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca//index.php/perj/
The Partnership
Canada
English, French
2006
101
Pecia Complutense : Boletín de la Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1698272X
http://portal.ucm.es/web/mantenimiento/contingencia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
Spanish
2004
102
Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação


14139936
http://www.eci.ufmg.br/pcionline/
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brazil
Portuguese
1996
103
Perspectivas em Gestão & Conhecimento


2236417X
http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/pgc
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Brazil
Portuguese
2011
104
PontodeAcesso


19816766
http://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/revistaici
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Brazil
Portuguese
2007
105
Potsdamer Beiträge und Reportagen aus den Informationswissenschaften
18676189
http://brain.fh-potsdam.de/
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Germany
German
2008
106
ProInflow
18042406
http://pro.inflow.cz/
Masaryk University
Czech Republic
Czech, Slovak
2009
107
Pustaha


18581447
http://repository.usu.ac.id/handle/123456789/148
University of Sumatera Utara
Indonesia
Indonesian
2005
108
Revista ACB


14140594
http://revista.acbsc.org.br/index.php/racb
Associação Catarinense de Bibliotecários - ACB
Brazil
Portuguese
1996
109
Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação


1678765X
http://www.sbu.unicamp.br/seer/ojs/index.php/sbu_rci
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brazil
Portuguese, English, Spanish
2003
110
Revista Española de Documentación Científica


02100614
/ 19884621
http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Spain
Spanish, English
1998
111
Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología


01200976
http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/RIB
Universidad de Antioquia
Colombia
Spanish, Portoguese, French
2000
112
Revue Électronique Suisse de Science de l'Information - RESSI
16611802
http://www.ressi.ch/
Haute école de gestion Genève
Switzerland
French, German, English, Italian
2005
113
REVY : Tidsskrift for Danmarks Forskningsbiblioteksforening
19041969
http://www.dfrevy.dk/
Danmarks Forskningsbiblioteksforening
Denmark
Danish, English
2004
114
School Library Media Research
15234320
http://www.ala.org/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/contents
American Association of School Librarians
United States
English
1998
115
sCIRES-IT : SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology
22394303
http://caspur-ciberpublishing.it/index.php/scires-it
CASPUR-CIBER Publishing
Italy
Italian, English
2011
116
Simbiosis : Revista Electrónica de Ciencias de la Información
15483436
http://ojs.uprrp.edu/index.php/simbiosis
University of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Spanish, English
2009
117
South African Journal of Information Management
1560683X
http://www.sajim.co.za/index.php/SAJIM
AOSIS OpenJournals
South Africa
English
1999
118
Sprouts : Working Papers on Information Systems


15356078
http://sprouts.aisnet.org/home.html
Sprouts Alliance
Netherlands
English
2000
119
Svensk Biblioteksforskning


02844354
/ 16535235
http://www.hb.se/wps/portal/bhs/forskning/publikationer/svbibforsk
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
Sweden
Swedish, English, Norwegian, Danish
2005
120
Technology Electronic Reviews, TER
15339165
http://www.ala.org/lita/ter/tertechnology
The Library and Information Technology Association (ALA)
United States
English
1994
121
Theological Librarianship


19378904
http://journal.atla.com/ojs/index.php/theolib
American Theological Library Association
United States
English
2008
122
Türk Kütüphaneciliği


13000039
http://tk.kutuphaneci.org.tr/index.php/tk
Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği / Turkish Librarians' Association
Turkey
Turkish, English
1987
123
Urban Library Journal
19449674
/ 19449682
http://ojs.cunylibraries.org/index.php/ulj
City University of New York
United States
English
2007
124
Virginia Libraries
10869751
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/
Virginia Library Association
United States
English
1996
125
Vjesnik Bibliotekara Hrvatske


05071925
/ 13346938
http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/vbh
Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo
Croatia
Croatian
2003
126
Webology


1735188X
http://www.webology.org/
Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST)
Iran
English
2004



Analysis and Interpretations
Country-wise Distribution of E-journals on Library and Information Science
Table-1


S.No.
Country
No. of Published E-journals


S.No.
 Country
No. of Published E-journals


S.No.
Country
No. of Published E-journals
1
Argentina
2
13
Germany
6
25
Romania
1
2
Australia
2
14
India
2
26
Slovenia
1
3
Brazil
15
15
Indonesia
1
27
South Africa
1
4
Bulgaria
1
16
Iran
1
28
Spain
10
5
Canada
7
17
Italy
3
29
Sweden
2
6
Colombia
1
18
Lithuania
2
30
Switzerland
1
7
Croatia
2
19
Netherland
3
31
Taiwan
4
8
Cuba
2
20
New Zealand
1
32
Turkey
2
9
Czech Republic
1
21
Pakistan
1
33
United Kingdom
7
10
Denmark
2
22
Peru
1
34
United States
35
11
Egypt
1
23
Poland
1
35
Venezuela
1
12
France
2
24
Puerto Rico
1


Table 1 shows that the country wise distribution of E-journals on Library and Information Science on DOAJ. According to the above table United State holds the 1st position and having the largest 35 E-journals published out of 126 E-journals followed by Brazil with 2nd position having 15 E-journals from its country. Spain with 3rd position having 10 E-journals from its country; Canada and United Kingdom with 4th position having 7 E-journals from its countries.



Language wise Distribution of E-journals on Library and Information Science
                                Table 2
S.No.
Language
No. of E-journals Published
S.No.
Language
No. of E-journals Published
1
Arabic
1
12
Italian
4
2
Bulgarian
1
13
Lithuanian
2
3
Catalan
2
14
Norwegian
1
4
Chinese
4
15
Polish
1
5
Croatian
1
16
Portoguese
20
6
Czech
1
17
Romanian
1
7
Danish
2
18
Slovak
1
8
English
93
19
Slovene
1
9
French
9
20
Spanish
25
10
German
8
21
Swedish
2
11
Indonesian
1
22
Turkish
2


Table-2, From the above list of all 126 journals titles of Library and Information Science discipline are published in almost 22 (Twenty-two) national/international languages. Most popular language is English which covers the 93 E-journals published and securing the 1st rank with 50.81 %, Spanish Language secured the 2nd position with 13.66 % and Portoguese Language secured the 3rd position with 10.92%.




    


Accessibility of Archives of E-journals
                                     Table 3
S.No.
    Starting Year


No. of E-journals Published
S.No.
     Starting Year


No. of E-journals Published
1
1975
1
13
2001
3
2
1985
2
14
2002
5
3
1987
1
15
2003
6
4
1991
2
16
2004
11
5
1993
1
17
2005
13
6
1994
2
18
2006
13
7
1995
4
19
2007
9
8
1996
8
20
2008
2
9
1997
5
21
2009
6
10
1998
8
22
2010
4
11
1999
11
23
2011
4
12
2000
5

From the above list and table, it is clear that publication of access journals in Library and Information Science   stared from 1975. Since  2005and 2006  13 (Thirteen)  e-journals



Table-4
S.No.
Language
No. of E-journals Published
01
Single Language
86
02
Two Languages
28
03
Three Languages
08
04
Four Languages
03
05
Five Languages
01



References:
Srivatave, R. and Mahawar, K L. (2007), ”Open access and scholary communication” Roadmap for Modernization of Libraries and Information Centres in the Emerging Knowledge Era, Proceeding of the EMPI Digital Library National Convention-2007, New Delhi, March 18-20, 2007,  EMPI B-School Puublishing, New Delhi, pp. 326-330
Verma, M.K. (2011), “ Electronic Publication and Its application in Libraries”, Gyankosh: The Journal of Lib. & Inf. Management, Vol.2, No.1, pp.68-73.
Pullinger ,David and Schkel, Brain (1990), “The Electronic Journal Research” Techniques Report Paper79 , British Library Research and Development.
Lancaster , F W(1995), “The evaluation of Electronic Publishing”, Library Trends, Vol.43, No. 4, pp518-527
Budapest Open Access Initiative, available at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess Retrieved 21 Jan. 12