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Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Agriculture

Agenda for ICAR/NARS

Sridhar Gutam, PhD, ARSSenior Scientist, CISH (ICAR), Lucknow

Convener, Open Access Indiagutam2000@gmail.com

September 2012

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What is Open Access?What is Open Access?

• Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

• What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

Peter Suber <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm>

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How Open Access be Provided?

• "Green OA” is provided by authors publishing in any journal and then self-archiving their postprints in their institutional repository.

• "Gold OA” is provided by authors publishing in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website.

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OA Repositories• Publicise an institute’s research strengths.

• Provide an administrative tool for institutions.

• Increase impact and usage of institute's research.

• Provids new contacts and research partnerships for authors.

• Provide usage statistics showing global interest and value of institutional research.

• Interoperable with all IRs, forming a global research facility;

• Common metadata protocol allowing other web applications, such as data mining.

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Benefits from OA?

• Researchers have immediate access to all the findings.

• Increase in visibility, usage and impact of research.

• Lawrence, S (2001): “Free Online Availability Sub-stantially Increases a Paper’s Impact”, Nature, 411(6837):521.

• Institutes co-benefit from increased impact.

• Publishers benefit from the wider dissemination, greater visibility and higher journal citation impact factor of their articles.

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OA's History

• BOAI, 2001.• Berlin Declaration, 2003.• IAS• INSA• CSIR, 2009.• ICAR, 2010.• NARS

– UASD, KAU, IARI, CMFRI, IISR, IIHR

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To promote OA?

• Submit your research articles to OA journals.

• Deposit your preprints/postprints in an open-access, OAI-compliant archive.

• Consider launching an OA journal in your area of specialization.

• Ask the journals where you have some influence (as editor, referee, or author) to do more to support OA.

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OA - IPR issues?• Most of the publishers allow either

pre-prints/post-prints.– Few others allow publisher's 'pdf'

version.• For more please refer to

Sherpa/RoMEO – Publisher's Copyrights Policies.

• NARS Societies keep 'All Rights Reseved' – it should change to 'Some Rights Reserved'

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Growth of Repositories in INDIA (Source: ROAR)

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https://www.facebook.com/oaindia

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Open Access World

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Testimonials Ray Frost, a researcher at the

Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.– He has deposited in QUT's

repository around 300 of his papers published over the last few years.

– These papers have been downloaded 165,000 times from the QUT repository.

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Green OA Mandate

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Publishers OA modelsTaylor & Francis' current iOpenAccess option will be Taylor & Francis Open Select from 2012, and would give authors and their sponsors the option of making their articles available on Open Acess to all for a publication fee.Article processing charges cover the cost of the publication process to allow free and immediate access to the research articles.

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OA Fund"Setting up a central fund to pay open access publication charges at the University was seen as a significant way of removing barriers for researchers to publishing in open access journals."

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Agenda for ICAR/NARS

Policy on Open Access in ICAR/NARS. Establishment of Institutional

Repositories at each institute/university in ICAR/NARS.

Transforming societies journals into Open Access.

Launching of new Open Access journals.

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OA Resources

• Open Access India https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/

https://www.facebook.com/oaindia/

• Open Access Directory http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

• Enabling Open Scholarship http://www.openscholarship.org

• Open Access Week Oct 21-27, 2012 http://www.openaccessweek.org/

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Thank you All....