Information For Librarians

Economic Trends and Business Review (ETBR) is committed to providing accessible, high-quality research to the global academic and professional community. As a librarian, you play a vital role in facilitating access to scholarly resources for your institution’s faculty, students, and researchers. Below is an overview of how ETBR serves libraries and the resources available to help you support your users’ access to our content.

1. Open Access and Free Access to Content:

  • Fully Open Access: ETBR is an open-access journal, meaning that all articles are freely available online to anyone with internet access. Your institution’s users do not need subscriptions or paywalls to access the full text of any article published in the journal.

  • No Subscription Fees: Since the journal follows a completely open-access model, there are no subscription fees for libraries to pay. This makes it easier for institutions to provide free, immediate access to all content published by ETBR.

  • Global Accessibility: All articles are available worldwide without restrictions, ensuring that your library's users have the same access to research regardless of geographic location.

2. Content Accessibility:

  • Easy Access to Published Articles: Users can access all published articles directly from the ETBR website. All content is available in PDF format for easy reading, downloading, and printing.

  • Full Text Search: The ETBR website includes a search feature that allows users to find specific articles based on keywords, topics, or authors. Full-text searching allows your patrons to quickly access relevant articles on their topics of interest.

3. Supporting Users with Citation and Archiving:

  • Citeable Content: Every article published in ETBR is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which makes it easy for users to cite the work in their own research. The DOI ensures that articles can be reliably located and referenced, improving the visibility and impact of the research.

  • Digital Archiving: All content published in ETBR is archived digitally in reputable repositories, ensuring long-term access. Our content is stored in global open-access databases, ensuring that articles are preserved and accessible for the future.

4. Institutional Repositories:

  • Encouraging Institutional Deposits: Authors of articles published in ETBR are encouraged to deposit a copy of their work in their institution’s repository. This helps to further disseminate the research within institutional and regional networks.

  • Open-Access Policy: The journal’s commitment to open access means that institutions and libraries can freely link to, archive, and redistribute content from ETBR without any barriers to access.

5. Resource Discovery and Usage:

  • Online Platform for Discovery: ETBR is indexed in several academic databases, which help to increase the discoverability of its content. As a librarian, you can easily link to the journal from your library's website or catalog to provide direct access to the journal's articles.

  • Linking and Integration: Libraries can integrate links to ETBR into institutional resource guides, library catalogs, or subject-specific databases. This facilitates access for students and researchers to high-quality, peer-reviewed research on economics, business, and finance.

  • Impact and Citation Tracking: Because ETBR articles are published under a Creative Commons license and are openly accessible, they are more likely to be cited and shared across academic and professional platforms. This enhances the impact of the research published and ensures that your users have access to widely recognized, influential articles.

6. Librarian Resources and Support:

  • Direct Contact with the Editorial Team: Should you need any assistance with journal access, promotion, or integration into library systems, you can contact the editorial office directly. We are committed to supporting librarians in promoting open-access resources to their communities.

  • Providing Feedback: We welcome any feedback from librarians regarding how we can improve access, discoverability, and user experience. Your input is invaluable as we strive to meet the needs of academic institutions.

7. Promotion of Open-Access Resources:

  • Advocating for Open Access: Libraries can play a critical role in advocating for open-access resources within academic communities. By providing seamless access to ETBR through library systems and catalogs, you are helping to support a model of scholarly communication that benefits both institutions and researchers.

  • Educational Materials: We are happy to provide you with promotional materials or content to help inform your users about the journal, its open-access policy, and its impact on research in economics, business, and finance.

8. User Engagement:

  • Encouraging Reader Interaction: As a librarian, you can encourage users to engage with articles by following citation trails, exploring related research topics, and contributing to the journal’s post-publication discussions. This enriches the academic environment and strengthens the community of scholars.

9. Subscription Alerts and Newsletters:

  • Stay Informed: While the journal is fully open access, we offer subscription options for newsletters and alerts, which keep you updated on the latest issues, article releases, and key developments within the journal. Librarians can sign up to receive notifications regarding new publications and special issues that may be relevant to your institution's research interests.

10. Future Collaborations and Developments:

  • As the journal continues to grow, we are open to potential collaborations with libraries for resource-sharing, promotions, and expanding the reach of open-access research in the fields of economics, business, and finance.

Economic Trends and Business Review (ETBR) is committed to maintaining an open-access publishing model that benefits both authors and readers. By providing a high-quality, freely accessible platform for scholarly research, we aim to foster the global dissemination of knowledge. As a librarian, you are a key partner in ensuring that the research published in ETBR reaches a wide and diverse audience, helping to advance academic discourse and real-world applications of economics and business research.