Nigerian Copyright Act. The paper also x-rays the success of open access in India, and suggests the adoption of same in Nigeria …This paper discusses copyright law as it affects the open access publishing. It posits that a copyrighted work can be … used under the Copyright Act without the permission of the creator when such use is for the purposes of research, private …

Nigeria and other developing countries are unable to access most journal articles required for their research due in most part … to the high cost of journal subscriptions and to copyright restrictions.Open Access is about free, immediate …

access is a feature of highquality journals. Besides, we find that the removal of copyright (and thus forced open access …

access is a feature of high-quality journals. Besides, we find that the removal of copyright (and thus forced open access …

Purpose With the emergence of ranking of universities by organizations, one major factor considered in the rankings is … the intellectual output of the universities. For universities to remain part of the global academic competitive society …, intellectual output of universities can no longer be stored on shelves in libraries. Academic libraries have engaged in …