This document discusses open access initiatives in India including institutional repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, open courseware, and digital library initiatives. It provides examples of several national-level open access repositories and notes that while many Indian journals are hybrid, no Indian journal charges authors fees for publishing papers. It also summarizes statistics on the growth of open access repositories globally and in India.
Reshaping the world of scholarly communication by Dr. Usha Munshi
1. R e shaping the W o rld of S c holarly C ommunications : E nhanced A c cess to I n formation R esources Indian Institute of Public Administration New Delhi U sha M ujoo M unshi International Conference on “ 21 st C entury Vision for L ibraries “ Islamabad, October 13-14, 2010
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5. The Library of the future will combine … ... a managed place … … with a managed digital space .”
6. From Database/Repository to Environment (Managed Digital Space) Seamless (fully integrated with digital learning and research; beyond?) Community (resources, people, interaction, process, activities, services) Omnipresent (it will be wherever the users are) Dynamic & Organic (the users will construct it as much as we will) Trusted Information Systems (status, reputation, influence, impact) Personal Information Systems (discovery, assistance, utility) Smart Information ( telemetry, propagation )
7. Scholarly Information Systems Portfolios Information Landscape Personal Info. Manager Portals Identity And Access Management Content Managers Object Libraries Library Catalogue Scholarly Publishing Learning Management Systems Digital Repositories
9. Culture of Openness Most modern libraries are “ hybrid” libraries Continuing the past and integrating new methods of storage and transmission of information into an already existing structure
13. Open Access Movement & initiatives Statements & Declarations http://www.digitalscholarship.org/oab/2statements.htm Budapest definition By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. (Open Society Institute, 2002) See http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
19. flickr cc As rightly said by — Evan Prodromou, Founder, Identi.ca “ Within a generation we can open the world’s knowledge to all of its inhabitants and reduce or eliminate the misery caused by lack of access to information, and Creative Commons is a crucial part of the cultural compact that makes that revolution possible"
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21. Open Access ‘Routes’ GOLD = authors publish in OA journals that make their articles freely accessible online immediately upon publication. OA journals are peer-reviewed. Depending on the model, authors may have to pay publishers a fee to publish. GREEN = authors publish in a subscription journal, but also make their articles freely accessible online, usually by depositing them in either an institutional repository or central repository (either peer-reviewed postprints or non-peer-reviewed preprints).
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24. SHERPA http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research. ROAR tracks the growth of existing OA Archives. OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories (http://www.opendoar.org/) ROARMAP tracks the growth of institutional self-archiving policies . ROMEO tracks journal/publisher "green" policies on author self-archiving . RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/) JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php ) Statistical Analysis For an indication of how UK research funders have implemented Open Access policies and level of funds affected, please see: Selected research funders' grant expenditure available at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/financialstats.html.) Let us take a look at some statistics associated with some of these International/National Initiatives: Open Access to Research
25. ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories resulted in 1737 repositories Open Access to Research India: Vidyanidhi (~55000 records) IISc, Bangalore, (~23000records) (IIAstrophysics (~4211) RRI (~3546) Many not listed ROAR/Open DOAR – NISCAIR (6 Feb, 2009)
26. Open Access to Research OpenDOAR 1737 repositories ~996 Organizations ~100 countries 8 Continents India
27. Open Access to Research http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
34. National Level Open Access Repositories Subject-based central repositories - for medicine (NIC), library and information science, and catalysis National Level Open Access Repositories Catalysis Database Librarians’ Digital Library (LDL) OpenMed&NIC Principal Implementing Agency : National Centre for Catalysis Research (NCCR), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai Supporting Agency : Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Web Address : http://www.eprints.iitm.ac.in Principal Implementing Agency : Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Supporting Agency : Indian Statistical Institute, Government of India Web Address : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in Principal Implementing Agency : Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi Supporting Agency : National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India; Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India Web Address : http://openmed.nic.in/
54. Knowledge Harvester @ IIPA OKHARI is a suit of information services based on OAI-PMH (Open Access Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) OKHARI collects metadata from various digital repositories dealing with subjects in Social Sciences with a strong flavour in Public Administration and provides a single stop search engine for full-text resources in the respective subjects.
55. HORUS is a suit of information services based on OAI-PMH (Open Access Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) HORUS collects metadata from various digital repositories dealing with subjects like Computer Sciences, Biological Sciences,, Social Sciences, etc. and provides a single stop search engine for full-text resources in the respective subjects.