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.

It is an organized collection of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways.

It is a device used to connect two different networks, especially a connection to the Internet.

A term to describe when authors provide open access by publishing in an open access journal.

A term to describe when authors provide open access by self-archiving their journal articles in an OA repository.

It 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.

It is an alerting service that provides bibliographic data and abstracts of new and latest research.

A service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library.

A 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.

It 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.

It 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.

They provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented.

It uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: journal contents, blog entries, news headlines, audio, video, etc.

It is the same as academic journal

It is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates to or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. An indexing & abstracting database is a kind of secondary sources, so are annual reviews in the field.

A term to describe the exponential increase in subscription cost of many scholarly journals.

It is an academic meeting for researchers to present and discuss their work.

A data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface.

It is the world's second largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.