View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UNL | Libraries University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Spring 2-22-2019 Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria Ramani Ranjan Sahu Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Sahu, Ramani Ranjan and Parabhoi, Lambodara, "Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria" (2019). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 2511. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/2511 Open Access Repository: A Comparative study of Germany, Switzerland and Austria By Ramani Ranjan Sahu
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[email protected] Professional Assistant Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla Abstract - Open access movement has been changed dramatically in recent past years. And it has been supported by individual researchers, institutes, organizations and publishers too. The current paper is a comparative study of Open Access Repositories (OARSs) among three European countries Austria Germany, Switzerland registered in Open Access Repository Ranking (OARSR) (http://repositoryranking.org. ) website. It is also discuss and highlights about open access repositories, operational status, top ten repositories by collection wise and policy etc.. The study found that 181 unique open access repositories in three countries where as most of the open access repositories found from Germany160 (88.40 %) repositories.