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Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
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Open Access Initiatives in India
Sukhdev Singh
The Big Question
The Bigger Question! Why Open Access is even more relevant to
India?
• Most reputed journals are published in developed countries (U.S / Europe) and are monopolized by few publishers
• Purchases are in foreign currency
• Even best indigenous research is published in foreign journals
India as consumer of research results
would benefit from world wide Open Access Movement
What about visibility of Indian Research?
• Poor in academic publishing trade• Poor visibility and impact of Indian Publication• Authors prefer to publish in High Impact
Publications, hence best of the research is published outside India
India as producer would benefits from world wide exposure through Open Access
publications. Exposure Impact
Online or Invisible? Steve Lawrence. Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001.
Open Access (OA) means free and online access to scholarly literature that can be freely disseminated further with proper author attribution.
It brings down barriers to scientific communication by using Internet
Open Access Publishing
• Open Access Journals perform peer review like their conventional counterparts and then make the approved contents freely available to the world.
http://www.doaj.org/
Lists 3834 journals as on 27th January 2009
Open Access Repositories
• Open Access Repositories allow authors / right holders to deposit their articles
• May allow preprints (pre-published manuscripts)• Normally allow post-prints (peer-reviewed and
published articles)• Most reputed academic publishers allow authors
to deposit some version of their articles in such repositories [http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php]
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) had 1240 registered repositories as on 27th January 2009.
http://roar.eprints.org/
Indian Open Access Initiatives
Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=india
Open Access Hosts / Publishers
http://www.ias.ac.in/
http://insa.ac.in/html/home.asp
http://medind.nic.in/
http://medknow.com/
Standalone Journals
And a Special Mention
Repositories
Open Access Repositories 40+
National Aerospace Laboratories
20099
3566
2926
2381
2154
2088
2429
1213
National Center for Catalysis Research, IIT Madras
727
DSpace at Bangalore Management Academy: Home (558 records)
National Center for Antarctic Research , Goa , India (532 records)
DSpace @ INFLIBNET: Home (505 records)
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (483 records)
National chemical Laboratory - Pune (407 records)
Institutional repository at MDI (343 records)
ETD@IISc Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science (328 records)
DSpace at ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL (IBS), Ahmedabad (213 records)
Librarians' Digital Library (188 records)
DU Eprint Archive (178 records)
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository
Kautilya (173 records)
OneWorld South Asia Open Archive Initiative (91 records)
Eprints@SBT MKU (71 records)
Any many others
Support
Open Knowledge Society
http://www.oksociety.org
Some Other Initiatives
Conclusion
• We have seen many initiatives from India• Many are in Pipeline• However we need create an awareness about
true “soul” of Open Access – Knowledge grows by sharing.