Open Access Repositories

Sarika Sawant, PhDSHPT School of Library Science

SNDT Women’s University(Research methodology workshop for PhD student 16th

November 2011)

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).

• 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)

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

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 5th Rank among 117 countries – 360 journals

Economics (174 journals)

Author paid

journal

Free journal

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.

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.

Personal website

E-print of the article

Disciplinary/Subject archive

OpenMED@NIC

Departmental archive

Contributors

Institutional repository

Thesis and Dissertations [58]

IISc Bangalore

Centre for Continuing Education

(1)

Theses and Dissertation Repositories

Pondicherry University

[448]

• 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]

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

Vidyanidhi

5482

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Directories of Open Archives: ROAR

OpenDOAR

Open/Free Software's useful for doing PhD

Zotero

Back-up and synchronization

2.25 GB Free

Version control

Graphics: Gimp

Dia

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

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