Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss open access to scholarly indexing/abstracting information. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses open access to scholarly indexing/abstracting information. Findings – Open access versions of the traditional ready reference tools cannot...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss open access to scholarly full‐text documents. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses open access to scholarly full‐text documents. Findings – The paper shows that while open access archives are good for the majority, for publishers,...

Purpose – The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is an advisory body to the higher and further education funding councils for England, Scotland and Wales, and the Department of Education of Northern Ireland in matters related to the use of information and communications technology in...