This document discusses building a global research commons through open access electronic resources. It defines key terms like digital commons, research commons, and open access literature. It outlines strategies for open access, including self-archiving research articles in open archives either before or after peer review. It also discusses open access journals and directories like DOAJ. Tools to support open access are mentioned, such as Eprints software for institutional repositories and Open Journal Systems for publishing open access journals. Statistics on open access repositories and journals in India and worldwide are provided. The presenter's contact information is given at the end.

1. Building Global Research
Commons with Open Access e-
Resources
Sridhar Gutam
Senior Scientist, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture
Convener, Open Access India
GGDSD, Chandigarh
20/02/2013

2. Commons??
• Resources held in Common and Not owned
privately (Wikipedia).
• Digital Commons (Fuster Morell)
– Information and knowledge resources that are
collectively created and owned and are freely
available.
• Research Commons
– Digital out puts of research resources and are
available to the public for use and re-use.

3. Open Access??
• Open Access literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions (Peter Suber, 2004)

4. Strategies to Achieve Open Access
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
recommends
– Self-Archiving – Depositing refereed journal
articles in open electronic archives.
– Open Access Journals – New generation of
journals committed to open access which will not
invoke copyright to restrict access.

5. Self Archiving
• Pre-Prints : first draft of the article - before peer-
review, even before any contact with a publisher
• Post-Prints : version of the paper after peer-review,
with revisions having been made.
• When these archives conform to standards created
by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines
and other tools can treat the separate archives as
one. Users then need not know which archives exist
or where they are located in order to find and make
use of their contents.

6. Stevan Harnad on Self Archiving
• Eprints - free software for institutions to
create OAI-compliant archives, interoperable
with all other open archives, ready to be
registered and for their contents to be
harvested into searchable global archives,
interlinked to one another by citations.
• DSpace
• University of Southampton, UK
• DuraSpace is the independent 501(c)(3) not-
for-profit

7. SHERPA/RoMEO
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
• 68% of publishers formally allow some form of
self-archiving.
• 31 publishers from India.
• 1024 globally.

8. Open Access Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• India 4th place with 477 journals.
– 1st USA, 2nd Brazil, 3rd UK
• World – 8628 journals (121 Countries).

9. Open Journal Systems
• Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal
management and publishing system that has
been developed by the Public Knowledge
Project through its federally funded efforts to
expand and improve access to research.
• As of October 2012, we have discovered over
14,700 OJS titles from around the world.

10. Communities
• http://myopenarchive.org/
• http://www.researchgate.net/ - 2.5 million
• http://academia.edu/ - 2.2 million
• Open Access India – 2,614

11. Institutional Repositories
• An Institutional Repository is an online locus
for collecting, preserving, and disseminating,
in digital form, the intellectual output of an
institution (INASP, 2013). According to ROAR,
there are 3,340 and as per OpenDOAR, there
are 2,255 institutional repositories in the
world

12. • Dr Melissa Terras: open access and the Twitter
effect.
• In the Open Access success stories column on
‘oastories.org‘, I found story of Dr. Melissa
Terras. Few weeks back only I heard
her podcast “Is blogging and tweeting about
research papers worth it?” on University of
Oxford’s Social Media Talks. I am very
impressed by her talk and got all the answer
to the questions which my colleagues and

13. Contact Presenter
• Name: Sridhar Gutam
• Email: gutam2000@gmail.com
• Twitter: @gutam2000
• Facebook: facebook.com/gutamsridhar
Thank you All