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. 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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