ABSTRACT
In this study the researcher choose widely used open source software designed to create and manage digital content that are; Greenstone, EPrints and DSpace. Open source software is a technical program developed by specialists in programming and technology to help create free software solutions. The open source software focus on giving freedom to the users to run, copy, distribute, study, making changes and improve the software. Therefore, the open source software has been built on the following four standard philosophy of the concept of freedom [3]. They are: use for any purpose, no restrictions on the programs, the source and the distribution of amended program. Open source free integrated library systems are more efficient in terms of cost and users’ satisfaction than their
1 INTRODUCTION
In the past years, open access emerged as a key development in the world of scientific communication. A number of initiatives emerged in the world that encouraged free availability. On the top of them is “Budapest open access initiative 2002”. “By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited” [1].
