Access Trend of Open Educational Resources in the Context of Library

a scientometric overview

Authors

  • Miral Shivang Desai Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat
  • Meghna Vyas Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Keywords:

Bibliometric, Library, OER, Open education, Open educational resources, Scientometric

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) increase the accessibility of learning as they reduce the cost of learning objects for each type of learner. OERs can support libraries in their mission of providing democratic education. This study used scientometric techniques to analyse research output on OER regarding the library of the last thirteen years (from 2010 to 2023). Scopus database was used to extract publications' data for the study. The study shows different scientometric parameters like year-wise, country-wise, subject-wise, accession-wise (open access and non-open access literature), and type-wise distribution of literature, authorship, highly cited, and most "cited by" literature.Year-wise growth in publications showed variation and the highest publications were during  COVID-19: 2020 and 2021. The study showed that open-access publications had more citation count than non-open-access publications. The keywords network visualisation was presented using VOSviewer.

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Published

2024-07-15

How to Cite

Desai, M. S., & Vyas, M. (2024). Access Trend of Open Educational Resources in the Context of Library: a scientometric overview. College Libraries, 39(2), 1–11. Retrieved from http://collegelibraries.in/index.php/CL/article/view/152

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Research Articles