Past and Present Scenario of Open Access Movement in India

Sawant, Sarika

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.007

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“…The status of OA journals was also investigated in various research fields, such as library and information science (Mukherjee, 2009;Yuan and Hua, 2011;Xia, 2012;Chen et al, 2016), computer science (Lawrence, 2001), psychology (Shin, 2003), pharmacy (Murali et al, 2004), physics (Harnad and Brody, 2004), medicine (Sahu et al, 2005), communication (Zhang, 2006), biology (Frandsen, 2009) and business and management (Lyons and Booth, 2011). Moreover, a considerable number of studies examined the status of OA journals and publishing in specific countries and world regions, like Zimbabwe (Nyambi and Maynard, 2012), South Korea (Shin, 2012), China (Hu et al, 2012), India (Sawant, 2013), the Netherlands (Woutersen-Windhouwer, 2013), Argentina (Miguel et al, 2013) and D8 countries (Ghane and Niazmand, 2016).…”

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Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

Erfanmanesh

2017

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Erfanmanesh

2017

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“…Countries occurring in the VOSviewer analysis include Australia, China, Germany and India as well as the USA and it is apparent that approaches to OA policy and take-up have varied across these and other countries. The OA literature includes a large number of country-specific studies, including those from China (Cheng et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2013;Shao et al, 2013;Zhao and Wu, 2014) and India (Balaji Babu et al, 2012;Gutam et al, 2010;Mukherjee, 2014;Sahu and Arya, 2013;Sawant, 2011Sawant, , 2012Sawant, , 2013 providing studies of research attitudes and overviews of service implementations. It is interesting that these BRIC countries are particularly covered in the literature on OA since they are making an increasingly important contribution to academic research and communication in general (Elsevier, 2013).…”

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Making Open Access work

Pinfield

2015

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Purpose: This paper is designed to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: open-access publishing and dissemination of research outputs. It identifies and discusses recent trends and future challenges for various stakeholders in delivering open access (OA) to the scholarly literature.Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a number of inter-related strands of evidence which make up the current discourse on open access, comprising the peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and other forms of communication (including blogs and email discussion lists). It uses a large-scale textual analysis of the peer-reviewed literature since 2010 (carried out using the VOSviewer tool) as a basis for discussion of issues raised in the OA discourse.Findings: A number of key themes are identified, including the relationship between G OA (deposit in repositories) and G OA (OA journal publication), the developing evidence base associated with OA, researcher attitudes and behaviours, policy directions, management of repositories, development of journals, institutional responses, and issues around impact and scholarly communication futures. It suggests that current challenges now focus on how OA can be made to work in practice, having moved on from the discussion of whether it should happen at all. Originality/value: The paper provides a structured evidence-based review of major issues in the OA field, and suggests key areas for future research and policy development.

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“…Around 23 publishers produce 535 journals to support open access in India. 58 The DOAJ reports a regular yearly increase of 46 OA journals in India, and this trend will likely continue. The reasons for this rise may include the emphasis of various national donor agencies and governing bodies of the major research councils on the dissemination of publicly funded research through self-archiving and OA journals.…”

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“…48 Many efforts have been made across India to create awareness of the advantages of OA throughout society. 49 Librarians and other LIS professionals in India have also realized the value of scholarly open access and actively engage in developing institutional repositories. 50 The National Knowledge Commission of India has formulated policies that would improve access to research through its open and wider dissemination.…”

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The International Open Access Movement and Its Status in Pakistan

Sheikh¹

2020

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The objective of this study is to analyze the present status of the open access movement in Pakistan, identify challenges, and make recommendations for the effective use of this publishing model. The article looks primarily at the open access movement in Asia, with special reference to Pakistan, India, and China. Findings show that, since the emergence of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2001, the open access movement has developed rapidly at the international level. From the Pakistani perspective, gold open access, in which articles or monographs are freely available in their original form on publishers' websites, developed quickly. However, green open access, which relies on authors to self-archive their articles in institutional or subject repositories, has been relatively slow to develop. A lack of support from educational institutions, libraries, library associations, and funding bodies may explain the slow growth of green open access in Pakistan. The author recommends that Pakistani universities, research institutions, and funding agencies develop open access policies, set up institutional repositories, and encourage publishing in open access journals and self-archiving in institutional repositories. The Open Access Movement in Asia Development of Open Access Journals in AsiaResearch journals are the most venerable source of scientific information. 9 The acceptance of OA in any country can be examined and analyzed, at least in part, through its number of OA journals and repositories. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a website that provides a crowdsourced list of OA journals, identifies 3,271 open access journals in the Asian region. Figure 1 demonstrates that in Asian countries, Indonesia leads with 1,372 open access journals. Iran holds second position with 442 journals, and Turkey and Russia secure the third and fourth positions, respectively. Pakistan has progressed less far in the development of gold open access journals and holds the ninth position, with 50 such journals (see Figure 1).

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Past and Present Scenario of Open Access Movement in India

Cited by 8 publications

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Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

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