1.
Understanding Global Perspectives in Open
Science : Positions of BRICS Countries
Anup Kumar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in
Session: Strategies Towards Open Science
Presented in International Conference on Data
Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability
(SciDataCon 2014)
at JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi,
2–5 November 2014

2.
BRICS – an association of five major emerging national
economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
Purpose of this presentation is
•To situation analysis in the fronts of
–Open Access Policies
–Open Data Policies
–BRICS Countries’ contributions in
• OA Journal Publishing
• OA Institutional Repositories
• OA Data Repositories

3.
Sherpa/JULIET
[Research Funders' Open Access Policies]
Country Number
Brazil 0
Russia 0
India 0
China 2
South Africa 0
Missing Policies from the Global South: e.g. India’s DST/DBT, CSIR, ICAR, NDSAP, etc.

4.
Sherpa/RoMEO
[Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving]
Country
Number of Publishers
Found
Brazil 36
Russia 18
India 62
China 8
South Africa 16
Missing Publishers: India’s NISCAIR, INSA, ICMR, ICAR, etc.

5.
Open Access Journals in BRICS Countries
Source: DOAJ.org Number
Brazil 942
Russia 98
India 597
China 77
South Africa 70
Grand Total = 10,048 BRICS Total = 1784 (17.54% Contributions)
Data as on 04-11-2014

6.
Open Access Journals in BRICS Countries
(No Charges – Publishing Fee)
Source: DOAJ.org Number
Brazil 845
Russia 65
India 251
China 36
South Africa 37
Grand Total = 6436 BRICS Total = 1234 (19.17% Contributions)
Global = 6436 / 10,048 = 64.05% OAJs have No Charges/ Publishing Fee
BRICS = 1234 / 1784 =69.17% OAJs have No Charges/ Publishing Fee
Data as on 04-11-2014

7.
Open Access Repositories in BRICS Countries
Source: OpenDOAR Number
Brazil 84
Russia 22
India 68
China 39
South Africa 29
Grand Total = 2726 BRICS Total = 242 (08.89% Contributions)
Data as on 04-11-2014

8.
OA Repositories in BRICS Countries as Indexed
in “Ranking Web of Repositories”
Source: Repositories.webometrics.info
Country Number
Brazil 45
Russia 15
India 35
China 17
South Africa 22
Grand Total = 1983 BRICS Total = 134 (06.76% Contributions)
Data as on 04-11-2014

9.
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/top_portals

10.
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia

11.
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia/India

12.
http://dlnetsa.info/advanced-library-search/

13.
Data Repositories in BRICS Countries
Countries
Number in
Databib.org
Number in
Re3Data.org
Brazil 6 2
Russia 10 12
India 28 26
China 25 18
South Africa 6 4
Re3Data = Registry of Research Data Repositories
Data as on 04-11-2014

14.
http://www.datacite.org/

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Clinical Trials Registry India
• The Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI.NIC.IN)
• A free and online system for registration all clinical trials being conducted in
India
• Set up at the National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi
• Registration of clinical trials in the CTRI is now mandatory, as per notification
of the Drugs Controller General (India).
• Trials registered in the CTRI are freely searchable, both from the CTRI site as
well as the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) of the WHO.
• International Committee for Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE) released an
editorial statement on compulsory registration of clinical trials in 2004.
• ICJME member journals now require, as a consideration for publication,
registration in a public trials registration.
• About 1650 journals from across the world are listed with ICJME.org
• About 50+ Indian journals are listed with ICJME

16.
Conclusion
• Global accessibility, visibility and collaborative research are increased in BRICS countries due to
increased contributions to:
– Open Access (OA) Journals
– OA Institutional Repositories
• However research institutions in BRICS countries need to establish:
– OA Institutional Repositories
– Open Data Repositories
– Contents Produced with Creative Common (CC) Licenses
– National/ Institutional Data Policies
– National/ Institutional Open Access Policies
• Need to strengthen
– Advocacy, Capacity Building & Awareness Raising on Open Access Publishing including Data
Publishing and Self Archiving in OA Repositories
• Global Disciplinary
• National/ Funder’s Level
• Institutional
– Bidirectional Information Flows [i.e., online moderated comments from readers/ fellow
researchers similar to newspapers’ or blogs’ comments]
– Interfaces of Researchers and Journal Editors
– Civil Society Participation in Policy Debates >> Formation of Advocacy Groups
– Knowledge Networking amongst Research Institutions in the Global South

17.
Thank You
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