Volume 18, No. 6, 2021

Content Analysis Of Three Open Access Journals In LIS: A Study


Smita Chetia , Sibani Senchowa

Abstract

In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly communication from funders, research organization, universities, publishers and researches because it makes research accessible to all. This study is carried out to find a content analysis of 234 articles published in three open access journals on LIS field between 2018 and 2020 to discover whether the LIS systems-oriented literature reflects any serious interest in user community, to know the yearly authorship distribution as well give some suggestions to the selected open access journals as the discipline is moving in fascinating new directions in a number of areas.


Pages: 4466-4477

Keywords: Open access, content analysis, e- journals

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