One archival link for an article ‘Growing a National Learning Environments and Resources Network for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education: Current Issues and Opportunities for the NSDL Program’ by Lee Zia, published in First Monday (Vol. During investigation it was observed that in a number of cases links were no longer valid, although the last modified dates were quite recent. Due to non-availability of such information it was also very difficult to know the present ongoing activities of these OA journals. So it is very difficult to ascertain how old the information is on these websites and hence whether they are relevant in the present context. Otherwise, no information is available regarding the current state of the web pages in 7 OA journals ( EAS, EID, HPW, ITD, JKM, LPP and SJI). The ‘last modified date’ as mentioned in their web pages, also indicates that out of 16 OA journals only 4 ( FIM, IST, JDI and SMR) completely modified their pages after 2004 whereas 5 ( ARD, CYM, DLM, INR and LRS) modified only some of their pages. Like the other two NOA journals, for only six OA journals, was the copyright date available with most of the pages.
On the other hand, out of three NOA journals, only the home page of MSQ contained the date. In another two OA journals, the home page was dated and in a further two cases the journals’ home page along with other pages were also dated. It is shown in Table 4.4 that 7 out of 16 OA journals did not contain any information regarding date of creation or date of posting of their pages.
The updating policy of these OA journals is not clear. Hyperlinks were also available on the websites of eight OA journals for promoting Open Access by providing further links to other OA journals. Some of these journals also used self-links to interconnect tables and figures from the text. Although hyperlinks from references/notes to other related web-based documents were common to all these OA journals, DLM, FIM, INR, JDI, LPP and LRS also used self-links to provide easy and immediate access to related parts of an article.
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In two OA journals, namely CYM and LRS, articles were available both in HTML and PDF format and in JDI some articles were available in PDF and some in HTML.
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This may be due to the fact that no proprietary software is needed to make an HTML file. Almost all OA journals publish their articles in HTML format except EID, where articles are available only in PDF format. This may be due to the fact that these OA journals mostly covered subjects of theoretical importance rather than of applied research. This table reveals that most articles in the OA journals EID, HPW, ITD, LPP, LRS and SMR contained less graphics and the authors of these articles mostly described the contents in a descriptive manner. In Table 4.4, a comparative analysis of page format, availability of hyperlinks, currency and updating policy has been given. Bhaskar Mukherjee, in Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services, 2010 Page format, availability of hyperlinks, currency, and updating policy of journals
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