Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.

1. Open Access Initiatives in India Sukhdev Singh

2. The Big Question

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

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

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