TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutional Repositories in Chinese Open Access Development
T2 - Status, Progress, and Challenges
AU - Zhong, Jing
AU - Jiang, Shuyong
N1 - Funding Information:
As we are writing this paper, there is some good news from China. In May 15, 2014, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China released an Open Access policy statement requiring that its funded research papers be made open access in IRs within 12 months after their publication. This is the first such policy in Open Access ever made in China by an academic institution and by a government agency. It signifies that China has begun to have open access policies and regulations. We hope that the significance of Open Access as an indispensable means for scholarly communication in the digital age will be increasingly embraced by academic libraries and IR, as a self-archiving tool for preserving and sharing scholarly information, be widely and wisely used in scholarly communication in China.
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PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - Open Access (OA) movement in China is developing with its own track and speed. Compared to its western counterparts, it moves slowly. However, it keeps growing. More significantly, it provides open and free resources not only to Chinese scholars, but also to those of China studies around the world. The premise is whether we can find them in an easy and effective fashion. This paper will describe the status of the OA movement in China with a focus on institutional repositories (IR) in Chinese universities and research institutes. We will explore different IR service modules and discuss their coverage, strengths, limitation, and most importantly implications to the East Asian Collection in the US.
AB - Open Access (OA) movement in China is developing with its own track and speed. Compared to its western counterparts, it moves slowly. However, it keeps growing. More significantly, it provides open and free resources not only to Chinese scholars, but also to those of China studies around the world. The premise is whether we can find them in an easy and effective fashion. This paper will describe the status of the OA movement in China with a focus on institutional repositories (IR) in Chinese universities and research institutes. We will explore different IR service modules and discuss their coverage, strengths, limitation, and most importantly implications to the East Asian Collection in the US.
KW - Institutional repository
KW - Open access movement in China
KW - Scholarly communication
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U2 - 10.1016/j.acalib.2016.06.015
DO - 10.1016/j.acalib.2016.06.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027924581
VL - 42
SP - 739
EP - 744
JO - Journal of Academic Librarianship
JF - Journal of Academic Librarianship
SN - 0099-1333
IS - 6
ER -