Open Access to scientific literature: case study for Knowledge organization subject area

Open Access to scientific literature has been intensively promoted and supported by many organizations and institutions over the world. The objective of this research and this case study is on the concrete example of Knowledge organization subject area to find out how big volume of this literature is in the present really open accessible within total electronic accessibility (including commercial), and to analyse and evaluate individual forms of this accessibility, from legal to illegal forms. Selected relevant examples of resources will be analysed. The case study is based on extensive bibliographic database of literature and other sources from this subject area published or created mainly in last thirty years. Minor amout of important sources originates from the past. The result of basic information retrieaval was processed in the form of working structured bibliographic database within research project NAKI -- Knowledge base for subject area of knowledge organization (DF13P01OVV013). Added data about accessibility, particularly electronic, were completed using selected information resources (internet search engines, union catalogues, portals of electronic resources). Covered literature concerns in main part the Information science field, but in accord with current approach to Knowledge organization hits associate disciplines like Computer science, Linguistics, Semantics, Knowledge management and others. The accessibility of literature is evaluated by bibliometric method, individual forms of electronic accessibility, particularly open access, are qualitative interpreted.

Eva Bratková

Ústav informačních studií a knihovnictví
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta
U Kříže 8
158 00 Praha 5-Jinonice