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Initiatives by Communities of Practice
Sridhar GutamConvenor, Open Access India
Open Access in South Asia
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Open Access?
Open Access literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions
(Peter Suber, 2004)
@Aanuuppk
Why Open Access?
Open Access seeks to return scholarly
publishing to its original purpose: to
spread knowledge and allow that
knowledge to be built upon
(righttoresearch.org).
It ensures that the community has free
and immediate access to the literature
before and after it has been reviewed and
published (jneurosci.org).
@simosacchi | @seis_matters
“We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million annually on APCs paid to OA journals and the amount would be much more if we add APCs paid to make papers published in hybrid journals open access “ - Muthu et al. 2017
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/04/0703.pdf
• Open access: The sorry state of Indian repositories
–R Prasad, The Hindu
• “Open access institutional repositories are clearly lagging behind despite the mandate”
– G. Mahesh, NISCAIR, New Delhi
Status of Open Access Repositories
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/Open-access-The-sorry-state-of-Indian-repositories/article17108642.ece
Status of Open Access Repositories
Kumar and Mahesh, 2017. http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/02/0210.pdf
DOAJ – Indian Journals
Open Access India
• Advocating Open Access, Open Data and Open Education
• Launched as online advocacy facebookgroup on July 8th, 2011
– Facebook group membership: 10864
• Grown into community of practice
Aim and objectives
• Advocacy – sensitizing the students, researchers, policy makers and general public about Open Access, Open Data and Open Education.
• Development of community e-infrastructure, capacity building and framework for policies related to Open Access, Open Data and Open Education.
Proud Ambassadors
SaileshPatnaik
SamreenFathima
GurleenKaur Kahlon
Sandeep Rawal
Sri Amudha
Sajid Khan
Memberships & Partnerships
• GODAN - Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
• ICORE – The International Community for Open Research and Education
• OA2020 – initiative for large-scale transition for open access
• Open Policy Network
• CLACSO Working Group - Bienes Comunes y Acceso Abierto (Common Goods and Open Access) for the period 2016 – 2019
Works & Initiatives
• Actively participated in discussions/deliberations for ICAR Open Access Policy
• Developing Indian Journals' copyright policies to be integrated with the databases like Sherpa/RoMEO.
• Working with DOAJ in building whitelist of Indian Journals
• National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3
– A draft ‘National Open Access Policy’ for India was prepared and submitted to: Ministries - Human Resource Development and Science & Technology, Government of India on 14th February, 2017, the 15th anniversary of the BOAI (Budapest open access Initiative). <https://zenodo.org/record/1002618>
“everything else can wait, but not agriculture.” -Jawaharlal Nehru.
Preprints for Agriculture
OA Communities in South Asia
Forum for Open
Access in SAARC
• We collectively coordinate and develop a framework for Open Access in South Asia/SAARC.
• We agree with the Joint COAR-UNESCO Statement on Open Access and will work for the alternative system in which both the author and the reader need not pay any charges.
• We advocate for the practice of Open Science (sharing tools, methods and results (data)).
• We adopt the Free and Open Source tools and innovative technologies for the development of models for sharing scholarship.
• We will garner support of the relevant stakeholders (students/scholars, journal editorial teams, university libraries, state libraries, public authorities in charge of dissemination of scholarship in higher education and other stakeholders) for spearheading the Open Access movement.
• We will take forward the concept of Open Access to further bring all the publicly funded research outputs (not limited to journal literature alone) to be freely available to the public to use and re-use for the public good.
• We will draft National Policies for Open Access and formulate country-specific action plans for making Open Access as default by 2030/250 thus making all the publicly funded research in South Asia (SAARC Countries) publicly/freely available to the public through the Internet.
• We will practice and encourage the researchers and the scientists to adopt openness in peer-reviewing and other editorial services.
• We will work for an alternate reward system in recognition and promotion not in terms of the ‘Impact Factor’ of the journals, but the ‘Impact’ of the articles/scholarship in the science and the society.
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