The document discusses the concept of open access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, highlighting its goal of providing free online access to scholarly articles without legal or financial barriers. It outlines two main strategies for authors: publishing in open access journals and self-archiving their works, as well as providing information on directories like the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and various repositories in India. Additionally, it mentions tools useful for PhD students, such as Zotero for reference management.

1. Open Access Repositories Sarika Sawant, PhD SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women’s University (Research methodology workshop for PhD student 16th November 2011)

2. What is "Open Access" According to"Budapest Open Access Initiative" (BOAI) It’s free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited (http: //www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml).

3. BOAI recommend two complementary strategies for authors to participate in open access these are: Open Access Journals (Golden Road) Self-Archiving of E-Prints (Green Road)

4. Open access journals Open access journals e-journals (supplementary fee-based print versions) freely available Born-OA journals Delayed OA journals Author paid OA journals

5. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals DOAJ AS OF TODAY 7267 journals 3389 journals searchable at article level 669521 articles India 5 th Rank among 117 countries 360 journals

7. Economics (174 journals)

10. Author paid journal Free journal

12. Self-Archiving of E-Prints "Self-archiving" refers to making "e-prints" available on the Web. An e-print is either a digital preprint or a postprint.

13. E-prints are typically made available in one of four primary ways: author's personal website; a disciplinary archive that includes works by authors worldwide about one or more subjects; an institutional e-print archive that includes e-prints by authors in a single academic unit, such as a department , or the entire institution; or an institutional repository that includes diverse types of digital works (e.g., data sets, electronic theses and dissertations, presentations, and technical reports), including e-prints, by authors at a single institution.

14. Personal website E-print of the article

15. Disciplinary/Subject archive

16. [email_address]

17. Departmental archive

18. Contributors

19. Institutional repository Thesis and Dissertations [58]

20. IISc Bangalore Centre for Continuing Education (1)

22. Theses and Dissertation Repositories Pondicherry University [448]

23. Tata Institute of Social Sciences [20] School of Health Systems Studies [1] School of Management & Labour Studies [2] School of Social Sciences [16] School of Social Work [1]

24. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

26. Vidyanidhi 5482

28. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

29. Directories of Open Archives: ROAR

30. Open DOAR

31. Open/Free Software's useful for doing PhD

32. Zotero

33. Back-up and synchronization 2.25 GB Free

34. Version control

35. Graphics: Gimp

36. Dia

37. Calendar/Diary : Gcalender (its free not Open Source)

38. The presentation will be available on the following link https://sites.google.com/site/drsarikasawant/about-me/talks-presentations