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Open access in India
In India, open access (उन्मुक्त अभिगम) to scholarly communication has been developing for several decades. During May 2004, two workshops were organised by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai[1] which laid the foundation for the Open Access movement in India. In 2009, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) began requiring that its grantees provide open access to funded research.[2][3] The "Delhi Declaration on Open Access" in South Asia was issued on 14 February 2018, signed by dozens of academics and supporters.[4] The members of the community of practice, Open Access India had adapted the PLOS's Open Access logo and modified it to represent it as the Open Access movement in India and had formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India.[5] The University Grants Commission's thesis repository, Shodhganga which is in place due to the Ministry of HRD's directives, encourages the authors to tag the submissions with Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Journals
As on date (June 2021), the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 310 open access journals which are being published from India.[6] Titles include the Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Indian Journal of Medical Research, and Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology.[6]
Repositories
As of April 2018, there are at least 78 collections of scholarship in India housed in digital open access repositories.[7][8][9] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. The Open Access India with the help of Centre for Open Science had launched a preprint repository for India, IndiaRxiv on 5th August 2019 which had recently crossed 100 records mark.[10]
Policies
- 2011 - Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) constitutes committee for implementation of Open Access policy in CSIR.
- 2013 - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) adopted Open Access policy[11] for the establishment of Open Access institutional repositories in the ICAR institutes.
- 2014 - Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) jointly made funders mandate for Open Access to the research outputs funded by the DBT/DST.
- 2017 - Open Access India, community of practice had proposed and submitted a draft 'National Open Access Policy' to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Science & Technology.[12]
- 2020 - Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020 (draft) propose to make preprints and post prints available through a central repository.
See also
- National Digital Library of India[13]
- Internet in India
- Education in India
- Media of India
- Science and technology in India
- Copyright law of India
- List of libraries in India
- Open access in other countries
References
- ↑ "Open Access Workshop, Chennai". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ↑ "CSIR Open Access Mandate" (PDF), Csircentral.net, Pune, retrieved 2 April 2018
- ↑ "Browse by Country: India". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Delhi Declaration on Open Access". Openaccessindia.org. Open Access India. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Open Access India (12 February 2017). "National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "(Search: Country of Publisher: India)". Directory of Open Access Journals. IN: Infrastructure Services for Open Access. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ↑ "Browse by Country: India". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Southampton. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "India". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "India". Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ Mallapaty, Smriti (17 April 2019). "Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality". Nature. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ↑ ICAR, New Delhi (2013). "Open Access Policy of ICAR". eprints.cmfri.org.in. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ↑ Open Access India (12 February 2017). "National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3". doi:10.5281/zenodo.1002618.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ D.K. Sahu; Ramesh C. Parmar (2006). "Open Access in India". In Neil Jacobs (ed.). Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects. Chandos. ISBN 1843342049.
Further reading
- Guttikonda, A., & Gutam, S. (2009). Prospects of open access to Indian agricultural research: A case study of ICAR. First Monday, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v14i7.2488
- S.B. Ghosh; Anup Kumar Das (2006), "Open access and institutional repositories -- A developing country perspective: A case study of India" (PDF), Papers of 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, International Federation of Library Associations
- Richard Poynder (2006), "Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, leading Indian OA advocate and distinguished fellow of the Chennai-based M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)", Open and Shut?, Open Access Interviews, UK
- Subbiah Arunachalam (2008), "Open Access in India: Hopes and Frustrations" (PDF), Proceedings ELPUB 2008 Conference on Electronic Publishing - Toronto, Canada
- European Commission; German Commission for UNESCO (2008), "Open Access in India – the Status Quo", Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges - a Handbook, doi:10.2777/93994
- S. Arunachalam; Madhan Muthu (2011), Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India — A Status Report (with Emphasis on Scientific Literature) (PDF), Bangalore: Centre for Internet and Society
- Anand Bandi; Shekappa Bandi (2011), "Open Access to Knowledge: Initiatives in India", National Conference on Beyond Librarianship: Creativity, Innovation and Discovery, hdl:10760/21190,
CDAC Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Richard Poynder (2012), "Frances Jayakanth of India's National Centre for Science Information", Open and Shut?, Open Access Interviews, UK
- Richard Poynder (2014), "Open Access in India: Q&A with Subbiah Arunachalam", Open and Shut?, Open Access Interviews, UK
- Neera Agarwal (2015). "Impact of open access on CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) journals". Annals of Library and Information Studies. India: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources. 62. ISSN 0972-5423. (About National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources)
- Joachim Schöpfel, ed. (2015). Learning from the BRICS: Open Access to Scientific Information in Emerging Countries. Litwin. ISBN 978-1-936117-84-0. (Includes information about India, Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa)
- Bharat H. Sondarva; Jagadishchandra P.Gondalia (2015). "Open Access Journals In India: An Analysis of Medical Science Open Access Journals" (PDF). International Trends in Library and Information Technology. 2.
- Walt Crawford (2018). "India". Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books. Template:Free access
External links
- "(Signatures: India)". Budapestopenaccessinitiative.org.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
- Peter Suber (ed.). "(India)". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research
- "Browse by Country: India". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
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