Open Access Asia Project

1. Open Access Asia
Presentation on behalf of OA Aisa Open Con 2017 regional Meeting
Group
Aliya Ibraimova, Kyrgyzstan
Linda Lew, China
Vrushali Dandawate, India
Kanok Monirul Islam, Bangladesh
Vinodh Ilangovan, India

2. We didn’t found any information or
very less information about OPEN
ACCESS in following Asian Countries
• Timor-Leste
• Turkmenistan
• Tajikistan
• Syria
• North Korea
• Reason may be – Language , Political issues or
Less Awareness of OA
Study based on simple Google search - country name and open access term
by Vrushali Dandawate

3. Name of Asian Country Open Access Policy/ Open Access Journals/
Open data
Afghanistan Yes
Armenia Yes
Azerbaijan Yes
Bahrain Yes
Bangladesh Yes
Bhutan Yes
Brunei Yes
Cambodia Yes
China Yes
Cyprus yes
Georgia Yes
India Yes
Indonesia Yes
Iran Yes
Iraq Yes
Israel Yes - less information found
Japan Yes
Awareness of Open Access/
Open data/ OA Policy in
Asian Country

4. SOWT ANALYSIS OPEN ACCESS ASIA
Strength-
Many Asian countries are aware about Open Access, Open Data, form OA
Policy and advocate are working to spread OA in Asia.
Slowly people are getting know about the term through advocacy programs.
Weaknesses -
No funding available to do such programs many peoples are working as
volunteers to spread awareness in OA Asia.
Communication Gap, Decision makers are different and not much interested
in OA policy
Opportunities-
Unity in diversity -Instead of working individually if all Asian country OA
Advocators come to together many good decisions can be taken.
If get funding for OA workshop, Seminars Conferences a lot of changes can
be seen in Asian Society

5. Come together to Spread OA
Awareness in AISA
Waiting for you at https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/66

6. Inputs on Git hub project
• https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/66
• At a glance
• Submission Name: Open Access Asia
• Contact Lead: @VrushaliD123
• External Site Link (optional - primarily for projects): Coming soon (Help
wanted from Webpage designers).
• Region: #Asia
• Issue Area: #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenResearch #OpenEducation
• Issue Type: Project
• Types of Support Needed: #Advocacy_and_Policy, #Coding,
#Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Fundraising, #Research

7. • Description
• Open Access Asia is a regional community of
enthusiasts advocating for Open Access, Open
Research Data, Open Education aimed at increasing
public engagement in scholarship. This project was
born at OpenCon 2017, to create a platform of
resources for sharing, learning and collaborating
entities around best open practice across Asia.
• OPEN ACCESS ASIA This project was born at OpenCon
2017 after regional workshop.
Members: Aliya Ibraimova, Kyrgyzstan
Linda Lew, China
Vrushali Dandawate, India
Kanok Monirul Islam, Bangladesh
Vinodh Ilangovan, India

8. Objectives OA Asia
1 To make a open platform for all OA Advocates in Asia
2 To hold workshop/ conferences/ seminars in all Asian Country by rotations
helping effect culture change across institutions.
3 Networks Sharing for OA Advocate in all Asian Countries through bulletin, write
ups
4 This will be a platform for advocating Open Access and sharing success stories of
OA movement in world and Asia
5 It invites everyone who is involved and interested in OA movement open to
discuss and raise issues related to Open Access in general and specific to Asia
6 Collaborate with OCS Network and leverage with other such networks for
information exchange
7 This team will influence policy makers, research workers, researchers, scholarly
societies for their research and move institutions towards adopting open access
policy across Asia.

9. Future Goals
1 Start blog post and podcast on Open Access
(denounce journals as the primary source of
scholarship)
2 To provide various grants to support people
do implement open in their projects
3 Collaborate with various organizations
(potentially Wikimedia foundation) and
advance knowledge.

10. Outcome of this do-a-thon:
Email account was created open.asia.org@gmail.com
Facebook group was
created https://www.facebook.com/groups/116644153348
8173/ (@VrushaliD123 will invite/add members there).
Twitter: @Open_Asia_Org
• To do:
Create group on other social media platforms to reach
open advocates from regions Facebook/Twitter is not
accessible (tagging @lindadalew)
Logo design
Presentation
for http://arm.oknp.org/ by @VrushaliD123 @lindadalew
Discuss with @nshockey and Roshan Karn on SPARC Asia

11. How can others contribute?
• Website developers can help us launch a
webpage for Open Access Asia.
OA Advocates and enthusiasts from Asia,
please join us grow and advance open!
Please update your contact details in this
Google-
doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u
1y9XxKYZiumuRIG1upsyM9pYwQ5CowaXmAg
GiKfUxk/edit

14. What Next
• Presenting about OA Asia Project at
Open Access Aisa Regional Meeting Nepal
2-3 December 2017
Will add more inputs after OA Asia regional
meeting
Will take ahead OA Asia Activities with all OA
Advocates suggestions

15. Thank You
Any Suggestions?
Any questions ?