Open Access, Publishing and Social Media for Researchers by V. Sriram. Webinar on Research Methods, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. India. 16th June 2020.

1. Open Access, Publishing and
Social Media for Researchers
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
email: vsrirams@gmail.comemail: vsrirams@gmail.com
Webinar on Research Methods
St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. India.
16th June 2020.

2. Contents
 Open Access
 OA Publishing
 Publishing process
 Writing for community
 Social media

3. Open Access
 OA stands for unrestricted access and
unrestricted reuse
 Articles are free to all interested readers
 No copyright barriers between the readers No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.
 OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions

4. OA Benefits
 Accelerated discovery
 Public enrichment.
 Improved education.
Funding for research. Funding for research.

5. OA Publishers
BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-
reviewed open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS)Public Library of Science (PLOS)
http://www.plos.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/ (More than 16000 journals)

6. Creative Commons
Source: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

7. OA Publishing
 Choosing the right publisher
 Editor / Editorial Board Members
 Journal coverage / objectives
 Journal Indexing Services
 Pay and publish model Pay and publish model
 UGC – CARE List of Journals

8. Starting an Journal in OA
 Open Journal System (OJS)
https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
 Ambra: An Open source publishing system
http://www.ambraproject.org/

9. Contributing to mother tongue
 Malayalam Wikipedia has 65,000+ articles
(Source http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
 Malayalam is used by less than 0.1% of all
the websites as content language (Source
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-
/all/all )
 Publish at least one item per year in your
mother tongue.
 Literature in any language will grow and get
enriched only with systematic efforts.

10. Social Media
 Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
 Multimedia Storage – You Tube
 Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
Social networking – Facebook, Twitter, Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, Telegram
 Kerala Scholars t.me/keralascholars

11. Thank you!
V Sriram
email: vsrirams@gmail.com