DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AND THE OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT IN CHINA
Cantao Zhong · 2009
The number of research articles about Open Access (OA) and Institutional Reposi-tory (IR) has grown quickly in recent years, while Chinese universities move slower than their western counterparts. There are only a few experimental institu-tional repositories (IRs) now, and no explicit campus-wide policies towards open access have been proclaimed. This paper will describe the status of the OA move-ment in China, and mainly focus on institutional repositories in Chinese Universi-ties. Factors that hinder the development of OA will be discussed; meanwhile we will give some suggestions for constructing IRs in Chinese Universities.