The present paper presents the results of an alternative approach for automatically evaluating quality inside learning object repositories that considers lower-level measures of the resources as possible indicators of quality. It is known that current repositories face a difficult situation, as their amount of resources tends to increase more rapidly than the number of evaluations provided by t...

Ancient City of Ray, located at the southern urban part of Tehran province, is one of the best recognized civilization sites in the world. In this study, the past earthquake incidence in Ray was reviewed using hazards united states tool as a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool. hazards united states tool was chosen to estimate the damage on structural and non-struct...

the present study attempts to identify the contribution of asian countries in the directory of open access repositories (opendoar). the opendoar is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, listed 2,299 repositories in the month of june 2013 when the data were collected. data were later presented in tabular forms and analysed using quantitative techniques to reveal findin...

provides an overview of subject repositories (srs) throughout the world in response to the open access movement (oam). it mainly highlights the current trends of repository development in library and information science (lis) field. this paper covers all repositories in lis field as registered in opendoar (directory of open access repository) database. the main objective of the paper is to sele...

the paper provides an overview over the functionalities of the proposed harvesting model (bura – burdwan university research archive) and describes the activities involved in harvesting resources from oai compliant lis (library and information science) repositories. repositories, registered in  opendoar database, containing 'library and information science' as one of the key subject have been c...

the open access (oa) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of specialization. open access (oa) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or fr...

the generation, acquisition, utilization and application of knowledge/ information is an indispensable factor for growth and development. nigeria’s vision 20: 2020 is a blueprint designed for the development of the country with emphasis on making it one of the top developed economies by the year 2020. however, the observation and analysis of the vision’s objectives and thematic areas shows that...