The document discusses the significance of open access initiatives in India, emphasizing the need for increased visibility and impact of Indian research in a landscape dominated by foreign publishers. It explains that open access allows free online access to scholarly literature, facilitating broader dissemination of research outputs. The document also highlights various open access journals and repositories in India, underlining ongoing efforts and the necessity for greater awareness about the benefits of open access.

1. Open Access Initiatives in India Sukhdev Singh

2. The Big Question

3. The Bigger Question! Why Open Access is even more relevant to India? 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

4. India as consumer of research results would benefit from world wide Open Access Movement

5. What about visibility of Indian Research? Poor in academic publishing trade Poor visibility and impact of Indian Publication Authors prefer to publish in High Impact Publications, hence best of the research is published outside India

6. India as producer would benefits from world wide exposure through Open Access publications. Exposure  Impact Online or Invisible? Steve Lawrence . Nature , Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001.

7. 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

8. Open Access Publishing Open Access Journals perform peer review like their conventional counterparts and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. http://www.doaj.org/ Lists 3834 journals as on 27 th January 2009

9. 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 1240 registered repositories as on 27 th January 2009. http://roar.eprints.org/

10. Indian Open Access Initiatives

11. Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=india

12. Open Access Hosts / Publishers

13. http://www.ias.ac.in/

14. http://insa.ac.in/html/home.asp

18. http://medind.nic.in/

20. http://medknow.com/

21. Standalone Journals

57. And a Special Mention

60. Repositories

62. Open Access Repositories 40+ National Aerospace Laboratories 20099 3566 2926

63. 2381 2154 2088 2429

64. 1213 National Center for Catalysis Research, IIT Madras 727

65. DSpace at Bangalore Management Academy: Home (558 records) National Center for Antarctic Research , Goa , India (532 records) DSpace @ INFLIBNET: Home (505 records) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (483 records) National chemical Laboratory - Pune (407 records) Institutional repository at MDI (343 records) ETD@IISc Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Indian Institute of Science (328 records) DSpace at ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL (IBS), Ahmedabad (213 records) Librarians' Digital Library (188 records) DU Eprint Archive (178 records)

66. Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository Kautilya (173 records) OneWorld South Asia Open Archive Initiative (91 records) Eprints@SBT MKU (71 records) Any many others

70. Support

71. Open Knowledge Society http://www.oksociety.org

76. Some Other Initiatives

90. Conclusion We have seen many initiatives from India Many are in Pipeline However we need create an awareness about true “soul” of Open Access – Knowledge grows by sharing.