In India, the Open Access (उन्मुक्त अभिगम) movement started in May 2004, when two workshops were organized by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai.[1] 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".[2] In 2011, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) began requiring that its grantees provide open access to funded research,[3][4] the Open Access India forum formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India. The Shodhganga, a digital repository for theses, was also established in 2011 with the aim of promoting and preserving academic research. The University Grants Commission (UGC) made it mandatory for scholars to deposit their theses in Shodhganga, as per the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M. Phil./Ph.D. Degrees Regulations, 2016. Currently, the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 326 open access journals published in India, of which 233 have no fees.
Landmarks
edit- 2004 - First workshop on Open Access and Institutional Repositories by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai.
- 2006 - India's first institutional mandate of open access adopted by the National institute of Technology, Rourkela.[5]
- 2008 - First UNESCO book on OA released in India titled "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario" [1]
- 2009 - National Knowledge Commission recommends Open Educational Resources[2] [3].
- 2011 - Open Access India formed[6]
- 2011 - Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) constitutes committee for implementation of Open Access policy in CSIR.
- 2011 - UGC and INFLIBNET Centre launched the Shodhganga : A Reservoir of Indian Theses, to disseminate theses and dissertations produced in Indian universities.
- 2013 - National Repository of Open Educational Resources
- 2013 - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) adopted Open Access policy[7] 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.
- 2016 - UGC Mandates M. Phil & Ph.D. thesis deposition.
- 2017 - Open Access India had developed and submitted a draft 'National Open Access Policy' to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Science & Technology.[8][9]
- 2017 - AgriXiv, preprints repository launched by Open Access India with the support of the Centre for Open Science.[10]
- 2018 - The "Delhi Declaration on Open Access" in South Asia was issued on 14 February 2018, signed by dozens of academics and supporters.[11]
- 2018 - 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).[12]
- 2019 - IndiaRxiv, India's preprint repository launched by the Open Access India community.[13][14]
- 2019 - Open Access India joins AmeliCA in taking forward the 'non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly communications' in India[15][16]
- 2020 - AgriXiv is relaunched as agriRxiv by jointly by the Open Access India and CABI.[17]
- 2020 - Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020 (draft) propose to make preprints and post prints available through a central repository.[18]
- 2022 - IndiaRxiv relaunched using Open Preprint Systems of Public Knowledge Project.[19]
- 2022 - The Central University of Haryana adopted Open Access Policy[20]
- 2024 - The Open Access India community launches IndiaJOL, a Diamond Open Access platform for not for profit scholarly journals[21]
Forums
editThe Open Access India forum was started in 2011 as an online forum and as a community of practice.[22][23] 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.[24]
Journals
editAs 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..[25] Titles include the Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology and Journal of Horticultural Sciences.[25]
Repositories
editAs of April 2018, there are at least 78 collections of scholarship in India housed in digital open access repositories.[26][27][28] 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 5 August 2019 which had recently crossed 100 records mark.[29] However, it is not accepting the records currently on its OSF but there is an update of resumption on new website.[30][31] The Open Access India earlier had launched AgriXiv, preprints repository for agriculture and allied sciences which is now currently with CABI as agriRxiv.[32]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Open Access Workshop, Chennai". www.utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Recommendations". 25 December 2017. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "National Institute of Technology, Rourkela". 15 December 2014.
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- ^ 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". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1002618.
- ^ India, Open Access; Rao, Achintya; Gray, Andrew; Gunjal, Bhojaraju; Singh, Chandni; Mietchen, Daniel; Das, Diptanshu; Babini, Dominique; Gorla, Praveen; Kalra, Harinder Pal Singh; Kuchma, Iryna; Tennant, Jon; Davidson, Joy; Oswal, Sanket; Gutam, Sridhar (14 February 2017). "National Open Access Policy of India (Draft, 2017) Ver. 3". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1002618.
- ^ Science, Center for Open. "The Center for Open Science Releases Another Branded Preprint Service With AgriXiv". www.cos.io. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Das, Anup Kumar (March 2018). "Delhi Declaration on Open Access 2018: An overview". Annals of Library and Information Studies. 65 (1): 83–84. ISSN 0975-2404.
- ^ @sridhargutam (20 April 2018). "Register" (Tweet). Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ Mallapaty, Smriti (17 April 2019). "Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01082-0. PMID 32296152. S2CID 145828439.
- ^ "Research outputs find a home at IndiaRxiv – IndiaRxiv". indiarxiv.in. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Organizational Chart – AmeliCA". Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ "India – AmeliCA". Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ "CABI launches new agriRxiv, the dedicated agricultural preprint service for agricultural research". CABI.org. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Barooah, Swaraj Paul (4 January 2021). "Draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Proposes Major Changes to India's Open Access Culture". SpicyIP. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "India gets 1st preprint server back — 'IndiaRxiv' aims to be one-stop shop for domestic research". ThePrint. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Open Access Policy – Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Central Library". Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Open Access India [@OAIndia]. (2024, December 21). Introducing http://IndiaJOL.org A Diamond Open Access platform empowering non-profit scholarly societies in India! [Tweet]. X (formerly Twitter). https://x.com/OAIndia/status/1866605150795641136
- ^ "About Us". Open Access India. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Indian scientist bags open access award". SciDev.Net. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Open Access India (12 February 2017). "National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3". doi:10.5281/zenodo.1002618.
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- ^ "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. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01082-0. PMID 32296152. S2CID 145828439. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ Mallapaty, Smriti (13 February 2020). "Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles". Nature. 578 (7795): 349. Bibcode:2020Natur.578..349M. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3. PMID 32071446. S2CID 211138911.
- ^ "Preprints will soon be accepted on IndiaRxiv – IndiaRxiv". indiarxiv.in. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "About". AgriRxiv. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ 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
edit- 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, Publications Office, doi:10.2777/93994, ISBN 9789279066658
- 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. 62. India: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources. 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.
External links
edit- "(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.