Arab Researchers Promotions of Open Archives and Free

• Main Author: Abd Al-Majid Salih Bu Azza
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Cybrarians: The Arabic Portal for Librarianship and Information 2006-09-01
• Series: Cybrarians Journal
• Subjects: Open access; electronic journals; open archives
• Online Access: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/en/no10/openacess.htm

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.