OIC online research publications directory

Abstract

The advent of Internet in the 20th century brought about a whole new array of applications in our lives. It has and still is changing the way we live, communicate, buy or sell, seek knowledge and entertain. Today we see hundreds of online academic journals across the globe providing both the means through which academicians can publish scholarly articles in various fields of research and the means through which the published scholarly articles can be accessed and viewed by academicians all over the world at their convenient time. Even though the internet revolution made this possible, it however does not mean the information published in the academic journals is fully accessed by everyone wherever they may be. Majority of the journals require subscription to access the published articles which some people cannot afford yet they really want to learn and enhance the already published scholarly articles for the betterment of mankind. We therefore take this very idea of online academic journals geared by the power of Internet to make sharing of knowledge possible without putting limitation to academicians having to subscribe in order to gain access to the scholarly articles. We call this system of availing and sharing information already published in reputable academic journals The OIC Online Research Publications Directory. In this system, academicians whose countries are member states of OIC (Organization of the Islamic cooperation) and have published their research papers in various online journals can make this information available to others by opening up individual accounts enabling them to post the already published unlimited research papers in this system. Research enthusiasts scattered all over the globe will view all the contents of the respective published papers in various disciplines. This is simply an open access platform serving as a repository for scholarly articles entailing all fields of research and the already published research papers in the respective disciplines posted here from different authors and made available to all academicians in the OIC member states and the world at large.