Suggestions for a National Framework for Publication of and Access to Literature in Science and Technology in India

Chakraborty, Shitanshu Shekhar; Gowrishankar, J.; Joshi, Amit; Kannan, P.; Kohli, Rajiv; Lakhotia, S. C.; Misra, Girishwar; Nautiyal, C. M.; Ramasubramanian, K.; Sathyamurthy, N.; Singhvi, Aakanksha

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“…However, there is no clear path towards developing mechanisms to enable science to be open for all. In a recent article by Chakraborty et al, the need for a national framework for publications and access to scientific literature in India has been discussed in detail (Chakraborty et al 2020) open peer review for outcomes of Horizon 2020 funded projects; Scholastica as a software for publication process and blockchain-based technologies. They have also proposed a possible alternative publication model that involves minimal editorial involvement, incorporates AI based reviewer selection and allows direct posting of the manuscript during the review process.…”

Section: Possible Solutions Towards Open Science and Open Accessmentioning

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“…Here, we have attempted to summarize some of the plausible solutions and efforts towards "Open Science" and "Open Access": suggested that the archival of pre-prints and published articles are the key paths to "Open Access" to scientific materials and they recommend the development of institutional mechanisms for national level preprint archive for national science (Chakraborty et al 2020). Some of the most common pre-print servers that have really helped promote Open Science include arXiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv etc.…”

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“…However, it is important to note that the Open Access model is also fraught with many of its own challenges as discussed earlier. And thus, many experts express the greater need to promote "green open access" models than fully open access, especially for developing economies (Chakraborty et al 2020).…”

Section: Reduction Of Open Access and Article Processingmentioning

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“…In the article byChakraborty et al, they have suggested creation of a "recommended" list of journals which can be considered for payment of article processing and/or OA charges. However, they have also raised their concerns with this mechanism, like lack of consensus regarding journal qualities, unfair weightage on the journal instead of the quality of the work etc (Chakraborty et al 2020)…”

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Open Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions and the Way Forward

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Everyone agrees that scientific communication should be free for all. Unfortunately, accessing publications from many reputed journals comes at a high cost-a cost that many researchers and institutions cannot afford. Although, openaccess publication model is considered by many as a possible route to ensure that science is free for all; however, it is fraught with its own challenges. This review attempts at exploring the possibilities of keeping science accessible. Firstly, we re-visit the meaning of "open science" as a comprehensive concept which includes open source, data, access, resources, peer review etc. and not merely open access publication model. Next, we have discussed the global initiatives towards open access-the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, cOAlition S and its Plan S initiative, UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Following this we have included the various open access initiatives from India. In the next part, we have focused on problems with dissemination of scientific outcomes and the challenges associated with existing publication models. Finally, we explore the possible solutions to the existing challenges, which include promotion of pre-print servers and other ideas that we have detailed in the manuscript.

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“…The Wellcome Trust has an elaborate compliance strategy (https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/open-access-guida nce/complying-with-our-open-access-policy). Another leading funding agency, NIH promotes policy compliance by asking authors to include the PMC reference number (PMCID) in citation and report (Chakraborty et al, 2020). Since, Indian authors have not started to embrace the practice of self-archiving the post-print in IR or the science central, a good compliance and monitoring strategy can be helpful in promoting self-archiving by Indian authors.…”

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Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?

Koley

Lala

2022

Learned Publishing

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India's primary science funding agencies, the Department of Science & Technology, and the Department of Biotechnology (DST & DBT) together formulated an open access (OA) policy in 2014. This policy mandates immediate self-archival of research articles generated from publicly funded research across all the institutions in suitable repositories. But with inadequate infrastructure and awareness, the OA mandate did not flourish as expected. This paper aims to understand whether journal policies impede the prospect of DST-DBT OA policy and the possible routes to achieve policy compliance. The analysis presented in this paper tracks down the journal self-archiving policies of the top 50 popular journals (among Indian authors) from each of the six STEM fields-Biology, Chemistry, Clinical-Medicine, Engineering, Materials science, and Physics. The results show that most journals have an embargo of 12-24 months on self-archiving of the post-print (final author version after peer-review), which contradicts the DST-DBT OA mandate. The study also reveals that hybrid journals dominate, and article processing charges craft a new form of inequity forIndian STEM researchers. We expect that these findings will be helpful for the funding agencies to restructure their policies, and negotiate with journal publishers to resolve the contradictions.

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Changing dynamics of scholarly publication: a perspective towards open access publishing and the proposed one nation, one subscription policy of India

Koley

Lala

2022

Scientometrics

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Suggestions for a National Framework for Publication of and Access to Literature in Science and Technology in India

Cited by 9 publications

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Open Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions and the Way Forward

Open Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions and the Way Forward

Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?

Changing dynamics of scholarly publication: a perspective towards open access publishing and the proposed one nation, one subscription policy of India

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