Open access in India: Difference between revisions

 

'''Open access in India''' (उन्मुक्त अभिगम) was begun in May 2004, when two workshops were organized by the [[MS Swaminathan Research Foundation|M S Swaminathan Research Foundation]], Chennai.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Open Access Workshop, Chennai |url=https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~chan/oaindia/index.html |access-date=2018-11-16 |website=www.utsc.utoronto.ca}}</ref> This laid the foundation for the Open Access movement in India. In 2006, the [[National Knowledge Commission]] in its recommendations proposed that "access to knowledge is the most fundamental way of increasing the opportunities and reach of individuals and groups".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-25 |title=Recommendations |url=http://knowledgecommissionarchive.nic.in:80/focus/default.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225175848/http://knowledgecommissionarchive.nic.in:80/focus/default.asp |archive-date=25 December 2017 |access-date=2021-12-02}}</ref> In 2009, the [[Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]] (CSIR) began [[open access mandate|requiring]] that its grantees provide open access to funded research.<ref>{{citation |title=CSIR Open Access Mandate |url=http://www.csircentral.net/mandate.pdf |work=Csircentral.net |location=Pune |access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="roarmap">{{cite web |title=Browse by Country: India |url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/356.html |access-date=2 April 2018 |work=[[ROARMAP]]: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies |publisher=[[University of Southampton]] |location=UK}}</ref> In 2011, the Open Access India forum formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India. Currently, the [[Directory of Open Access Journals]] lists 326 [[open access journals]] published in India, of which 233 have no fees.{{short description|Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in India}}

 

* 2006 - India's first institutional mandate of open access adopted by National institute of Technology, Rourkela.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2014-12-15|title=National Institute of Technology, Rourkela|url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/30/}}</ref>

*2011 - [[Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]] (CSIR) constitutes [https://www.csir.res.in/sites/default/files/PolicyDoc%25282012_7_31_16_1_57_193%2529.pdf committee] for implementation of [http://www.csircentral.net/mandate.pdf Open Access policy] in CSIR.

* 2013 - [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]] (ICAR) adopted [https://www.icar.gov.in/node/5542 Open Access policy]<ref>{{Cite web|last=ICAR|first=New Delhi|date=2013|title=Open Access Policy of ICAR|url=http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9665/|access-date=2021-08-28|website=eprints.cmfri.org.in|language=en}}</ref> 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 [http://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/APPROVED%20OPEN%20ACCESS%20POLICY-DBT%26DST%2812.12.2014%29_1.pdf funders mandate for Open Access to the research outputs funded by the DBT/DST].

* 2017 - Open Access India had developed and submitted a draft '[http://openaccessindia.org/national-open-access-policy-of-india-draft-ver-3/ National Open Access Policy]' to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Science & Technology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Open Access India|date=2017-02-12|title=National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1002618|doi=10.5281/zenodo.1002618}}</ref>

* 2017 - AgriXiv, preprints repository launched by Open Access India with the support of Centre for Open Science.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Science |first=Center for Open |title=The Center for Open Science Releases Another Branded Preprint Service With AgriXiv |url=https://www.cos.io/about/news/center-open-science-releases-preprint-service-agrixiv |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=www.cos.io |language=en}}</ref>

*2018 - The "Delhi Declaration on Open Access" in South Asia was issued on 14 February 2018, signed by dozens of academics and supporters.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Das|first=Anup Kumar|title=Delhi Declaration on Open Access 2018: An overview|url=http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/44214|journal=Annals of Library and Information Studies |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=83–84 |date=March 2018|language=en-US|issn=0975-2404}}</ref>

*2018 - The [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]]'s thesis repository, [[Shodhganga]] which is in place due to the [[Ministry of Education (India)|Ministry of HRD]]'s directives, encourages the authors to tag the submissions with [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Licence]] Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International ([[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/sridhargutam/status/987259885212524544|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>

*2019 - IndiaRxiv, India's preprints repository launched by the Open Access India community.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mallapaty|first=Smriti|date=2019-04-17|title=Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01082-0|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-01082-0|pmid=32296152|s2cid=145828439}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Research outputs find a home at IndiaRxiv – IndiaRxiv|url=https://indiarxiv.in/research-outputs-find-a-home-at-indiarxiv/|access-date=2021-12-01|website=indiarxiv.in}}</ref>

*2019 - Open Access India joins [http://amelica.org/index.php/en/home/ AmeliCA] in taking forward the 'non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly communications' in India<ref>{{Cite web|title=Organizational Chart – AmeliCA|url=http://amelica.org/index.php/en/organizational-chart/|access-date=2021-12-12|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=India – AmeliCA|url=http://amelica.org/index.php/en/india-en/|access-date=2021-12-12|language=en-US}}</ref>

*2020 - AgriXiv is relaunched as agriRxiv by jointly by the Open Access India and CABI.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CABI launches new agriRxiv, the dedicated agricultural preprint service for agricultural research |url=https://www.cabi.org/news-article/cabi-launches-new-agrirxiv-the-dedicated-agricultural-preprint-service-for-agricultural-research/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=CABI.org |language=en-GB}}</ref>

* 2020 - [https://www.psa.gov.in/psa-prod/psa_custom_files/STIP_Doc_1.4_Dec2020.pdf Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020 (draft)] propose to make preprints and post prints available through a central repository.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Barooah|first=Swaraj Paul|title=Draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Proposes Major Changes to India's Open Access Culture|url=https://spicyip.com/2021/01/draft-science-technology-and-innovation-policy-proposes-major-changes-to-indias-open-access-culture.html|access-date=2021-12-01|website=SpicyIP|language=en-US}}</ref>

* 2022 - [http://indiarxiv.org/ IndiaRiv] relaunched using Open Preprint Systems of [[Public Knowledge Project]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-01 |title=India gets 1st preprint server back — 'IndiaRxiv' aims to be one-stop shop for domestic research |url=https://theprint.in/science/india-gets-1st-preprint-server-back-indiarxiv-aims-to-be-one-stop-shop-for-domestic-research/853193/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>

 

The Open Access India forum was started in 2011 as an online forum and as a community of practice.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=http://openaccessindia.org/about-us/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Open Access India|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Indian scientist bags open access award|url=https://www.scidev.net/global/news/indian-scientist-bags-award/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=SciDev.Net|language=en-US}}</ref> The members of the community of practice, [http://openaccessindia.org/ 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Open Access India|date=2017-02-12|title=National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3|doi=10.5281/zenodo.1002618|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1002618}}</ref>  

As of April 2022, the [[Directory of Open Access Journals]] lists 326 [[open access journals]] which are being published from India of which, 233 are having no Article Processing Charges..<ref name=doaj>{{cite web |url= http://doaj.org |title=(Search: Country of Publisher: India) |work= Directory of Open Access Journals |publisher= Infrastructure Services for Open Access |location=IN |access-date= 29 June 2021 }}</ref> Titles include the ''[[Indian Journal of Community Medicine]],'' ''[[Indian Journal of Medical Research]]'', ''[[Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology]]'' and ''[[Journal of Horticultural Sciences]].''<ref name=doaj />

As of April 2018, there are at least 78 collections of scholarship in India housed in digital [[open access repositories]].<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Registry of Open Access Repositories]] |publisher=University of Southampton |location=UK |url= http://roar.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname=5F2=5FIN.html |title= Browse by Country: India |access-date= 15 April 2018 }}</ref><ref name=opendoar>{{cite web |url= http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Asia |title= India |work= [[Directory of Open Access Repositories]] |publisher= University of Nottingham |location= UK |access-date= 15 April 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180416133059/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Asia |archive-date= 16 April 2018 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name=unesco>{{cite web |url= http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/asia-and-the-pacific/india/ |work=Global Open Access Portal |title=India |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date= 15 April 2018 }}</ref> They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are [[Gratis versus libre|free to read]]. The Open Access India with the help of [[Center for Open Science|Centre for Open Science]] had launched a [[preprint]] repository for India, [https://indiarxiv.org/ IndiaRxiv] on 5 August 2019 which had recently crossed 100 records mark.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01082-0|title=Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality|last=Mallapaty|first=Smriti|date=17 April 2019|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-01082-0|pmid=32296152|s2cid=145828439|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref> However, it is not accepting the records currently on its OSF but there is an update of resumption on new website.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mallapaty|first=Smriti|date=2020-02-13|title=Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00363-3|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=578|issue=7795|pages=349|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3|pmid=32071446|bibcode=2020Natur.578..349M|s2cid=211138911}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Preprints will soon be accepted on IndiaRxiv – IndiaRxiv|url=https://indiarxiv.in/preprints-will-soon-be-accepted-on-indiarxiv/|access-date=2022-01-14|website=indiarxiv.in}}</ref> The Open Access India earlier had launched AgriXiv, preprints repository for agriculture and allied sciences which is now currently with CABI as agriRxiv.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://agrirxiv.org/about/|access-date=2021-09-26|website=AgriRxiv|language=en}}</ref>

* Guttikonda, A., & Gutam, S. (2009). [https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2488 Prospects of open access to Indian agricultural research: A case study of ICAR]. ''First Monday'', ''14''(7). <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v14i7.2488</nowiki> {{free access}}

* {{citation |chapter= Open Access in India – the Status Quo |title=Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges - a Handbook |author1= European Commission |author2-link=German Commission for UNESCO |author2= German Commission for UNESCO |doi=10.2777/93994 |year= 2008 |publisher=Publications Office |isbn=9789279066658 |author1-link=European Commission }}