Oalib is not a digital public library

Oalib allows people to search for open access scholarly publications and offers access to full text of these works. It is not a digital public library, which open access to its data, although they both offer access to academic materials.

Digital public libraries aim to help visitors connect with the books, movies, media and people of public libraries via network technology. They electronically offer to service of availability of intellectual materials and access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual.

Oalib and digital public libraries are different in function while they both hold the conception of turning information and knowledge into power.

It is said that 20,702 articles were published in open-access journals in 2000, compared with 340,130 in 2011—nearly a fifth of all articles published that year. How do people to find useful articles across them is a subsequent problem that people encounter. Oalib strives to make it easy to offer a simple way to find open access articles. You can refer to www.oalib.com.