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1. Slide 1: Open Access What it is and why it is required for scholarly community? Sukhdev Singh – esukhdev AT gmail.com
2. Slide 2: I am not talking about • Open Source • Open Standards • Right to Information
3. Slide 3: But on similar concept • It relates to access to results of public funded research • It relates to access to that knowledge which scientists and scholars give away for free after years of hard work
4. Slide 4: Let us see how Knowledge is produced and consumed by scientists and scholars
5. Slide 5: Research Impact 12 – 18 Months
6. Slide 6: Fine, What is the Problem?
7. Slide 7: Research Impact
8. Slide 8: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/home/regain_control.html
9. Slide 9: Situation is even worse in developing countries • 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
10. Slide 10: Now the Question being asked is
11. Slide 11: Where is the catch? • Scientists / scholars need to publish articles • Publishers seek transfer of copyrights in their favour in lieu of publication of their articles • They had no other alternative than to gave away their copyrights to get their articles published
12. Slide 12: But now Internet is threatening the conventional model for good. Scholarly literature Can be submitted online • Can be peer reviewed online • Edited online • Published online • Distributed online • Used online • At very low cost compared to the conventional publishing model And Save the time as too
13. Slide 13: Open Access is the answer to the ills of conventional academic publishing Open-access (OA) literature • is [scholarly,] digital, online, • free of charge, • and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. [Peter Suber -http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm]
14. Slide 14: 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
15. Slide 15: Open Access Publishing • Open Access Journals perform peer review like their conventional counterparts and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. Has 3372 journals in the directory as on 21st May 2008 http://www.doaj.org/
16. Slide 16: 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 1065 registered repositories as on 21st May 2008. http://roar.eprints.org/
17. Slide 17: So, Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community?
18. Slide 18: Newton, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
19. Slide 19: Impact “Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access”. Online or Invisible? Steve Lawrence. Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/
20. Slide 20: Community Both the Producer and Consumer • Scholarly community is working for furtherance of science and knowledge • Most work is given away for free. • Outsider publishers with commercial interests benefits and creates barriers in communication among the community • Internet has provided an alternative means of peer review, publication and distribution. • Internet based scholarly communication advances the science without lose of time
21. Slide 21: Public Good • Research funded out of public money should be publically accessible • Number of universities, academic institutions and research funding agencies are making Open Access as mandatory requirement [http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/]
22. Slide 22: Government Laws • In accordance with Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 ), the NIH voluntary Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-05-022) is now mandatory. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html
23. Slide 23: Awareness • Faculties becoming more aggressive and aware for example on 6th May 2008, Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php
24. Slide 24: What can bloggers do?
25. Slide 25: Blog on Open Access Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Peter Suber, Editor Gavin Baker, Assistant Editor
26. Slide 26: Blog on Open Access Literature / Resources
27. Slide 27: Blog on Peer-Reviewed Research “Research Blogging helps you locate and share academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research. Bloggers use our icon to identify their thoughtful posts about serious research, and those posts are collected here for easy reference”. http://researchblogging.org/index.php -
28. Slide 28: Open Access and India
29. Slide 29: Open Access Repositories 30+ Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository National Aerospace Laboratories
30. Slide 30: Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=india
31. Slide 31: Open Access Hosts / Publishers http://www.ias.ac.in/
32. Slide 32: http://insa.ac.in/html/home.asp
33. Slide 33: http://medind.nic.in/
34. Slide 34: http://medknow.com/
35. Slide 35: Open Knowledge Society http://www.oksociety.org
36. Slide 36: THANK YOU VERY MUCH Image Credits http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/ • http://www.opensource.org/ • http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Knowledge-Posters_i2548954_.htm • http://a182thedeuce.org/who_is_who • http://www.plos.org/downloads/plos_cartoon001.jpg • http://edwardkhoo.com/things-to-do-when-you-have-nothing-to-do-a-complete-list/ • And many others •