Scholarly Communications

It is a meeting for academicians and researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.

It is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, research reports, patents, books, etc.

It is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as fora for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research.

A central mechanism for funding Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing, by charging a fee from authors willing to publish in an OA journal.

It is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles.

A group of emerging countries belong to broad category of developing countries. Represented countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

It is a reference to a text or part of a text identifying the document in which it may be found.

It is a bibliographic tool in print or electronic format that lists all referenced or cited source items published in a given time span.

An arrangement whereby software or artistic work may be used, modified, and distributed freely on condition that anything derived from it is bound by the same conditions.

It is one of the several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created.