DatabaseIt is an organized collection of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways. |
GatewayIt is a device used to connect two different networks, especially a connection to the Internet. |
Gold Open AccessA term to describe when authors provide open access by publishing in an open access journal. |
Green Open AccessA term to describe when authors provide open access by self-archiving their journal articles in an OA repository. |
Hybrid JournalIt is a kind of journal which itself is not fully open access, but authors may pay a sum of money to make their articles open access. This type of open access articles is called "Gold OA". This is also known as hybrid open access journal. |
Indexing & Abstracting ServiceIt is an alerting service that provides bibliographic data and abstracts of new and latest research. |
Inter Library LoanA service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library. |
Least Developed CountryA country that, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world. |
PatentIt is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time, inexchange for the public disclosure of the invention. |
Peer ReviewIt is the evaluation of work by one or more people of competence to the producers of the work. It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. |