Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the next batch of articles available in open access as part of its 'special partnership' with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The articles, available to download from www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/iflaoa2013, are published in several of Emerald's LIS journals, including Interlending & Document Supply, Library Hi Tech News, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Library Management and Library Review.
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 'special partnership' was first announced at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Milan, August 2009. This formal agreement between the two organisations provides the IFLA community with substantially more publishing opportunities. The opportunity to be published by Emerald is 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 become open access nine months after publication.
The latest open access papers include articles originating from IFLA's 12th Interlending & Document Supply Conference held in Chicago in 2011, and papers from the World Library and Information Congress held in Puerto Rico in 2011. Also available are 19 papers published in November 2011. In total Emerald has published nearly 50 OA papers since the special partnership was set up in August 2009.
