Open Access Journals of Library and Information Science (LIS) regarding DOAJ

an analytical study

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to find out the available journals of Library and Information Science (LIS) which can be accessed freely and to judge their quality in terms of the citations. This is an online survey-based paper that shows how Open Access (OA) has influenced scholarly publication in the area of LIS. The trend and pattern have been drawn based on the data available in DOAJ with the use of Publish or Perish (PoP) software tools. It was found that scholarly open access publications of LIS have maintained the quality and started their growth in the last 10 years. It has also been revealed that the Bulletin of the Medical LibraryAssociation
is the most important journal in terms of citations received but according to the JCR report (2017) Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice is considered as most productive journal. Based on the result the author has tried to raise the important issues that are embedded with the scholarly communication of OA journals.