Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has released the first articles in open access as part of its 'special partnership' with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Available from November 1, 2010, the fourteen articles are published in four different Emerald journals - Interlending & Document Supply, Library Hi Tech News, Performance Measurement and Metrics and Program.
Under this agreement, papers that have their origins in an IFLA conference or project, have the opportunity to be published in one of Emerald’s LIS journals and become open access nine months after publication. This special partnership takes advantage of the Emerald platform to increase the discoverability of research presented at IFLA events.
The first batch of open access papers include articles originating from the Statistics and Evaluation Section’s 8th Northumbria Conference (2009) and the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section’s 11th Interlending & Document Supply Conference (2009).
The ‘special partnership’ was first announced at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Milan, August 2009. This was cemented with the signing of a formal agreement between the two organisations, which will provide the IFLA community with substantially more publishing opportunities. The opportunity to be published by Emerald will be available, not only for research produced by the various IFLA Sections, but for papers presented at the general IFLA Congress and satellite events. These papers will become open access nine months after publication.
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