Various studies have attempted to assess the amount of free full text available on the web and recent work have suggested that we are close to the 50% mark for freely available articles (Archambault et al. 2013; Björk et al. 2010; Jamali and Nabavi 2015). Our paper contributes to the literature by taking into account the timing issue by studying when the papers were made free. We sampled citati...

Institutional repositories (IRs) currently exist in a rapidly shifting landscape without a clear consensus on their role in the academic environment. Low self-archiving rates have dampened hopes that IRs would have an impact on scholarly publishing models. Preservation programs, a stated goal of many IRs, are often not well established. In many cases, IRs are not part of a larger vision for ser...

The world has changed a lot since the term inclusion was first used in relation to education, especially special education. Inclusion and education cannot be part of a conversation without due consideration of issues related to poverty and the international mechanisms which have been touted to eradicate poverty from the planet. Poverty is inextricably linked to many of the world’s social ills w...