Webliography

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Definition

A list of electronic documents, websites or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject.

The term Webliography is commonly used when discussing online resources. It is referred to as “Web bibliography”. Accordingly, a Webliography is a list of resources relating to a particular topic that can be accessed on the World Wide Web, and can be referred to in a scholarly work.

Introduction

In basic terms, the goal of the open access movement is to take scholarly articles freely available in digital form worldwide with minimal restrictions on their use (e.g., proper attribution of authorship). In reality, it’s more complex than this because of differences of opinion about what open access should or shouldn’t try to achieve. Some advocates say free access to scholarly articles is enough minimal restrictions are not needed. Others say that the basic goal is correct, but permanent archiving is also required.

History of webliography

This Webliography presents a wide range of electronic related to the open access movement that are freely available on the internet as of April 2005.

As part of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a non-profit organization founded in 1994 to improve History education, it is a trusted source of information including essays and primary source documents as well as multimedia presentations.

Concept

A  Webliography is a list of resources which can be accessed on the World Wide Web, relating to a particular topic or can be referred to in a scholarly work. One of the main purposes of the Webliography in education is that allows educators and students to select and list internet sources relevant to the topic or theme which can be used for the future references or projects, to fulfill this purpose, many educators suggest that a Webliography should be an annotated bibliography.

Basic Strategies

There are two basic strategies used to achieve open access:

·         Self-archiving (making electronic preprints and post prints available on author home pages or depositing them in digital archives and repositories)

·         Open access journals. Metadata about electronic versions of articles can be retrieved by use to the open archives initiative protocol for Metadata Harvesting so that it can be used in search systems or for other purposes.