Anup Kumar DasJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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Session: Strategies Towards Open SciencePresented in International Conference on Data

Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability (SciDataCon 2014)

at JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, 2–5 November 2014

Understanding Global Perspectives in Open Science : Positions of BRICS Countries

BRICS – an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

Purpose of this presentation is •To situation analysis in the fronts of –Open Access Policies–Open Data Policies–BRICS Countries’ contributions in

• OA Journal Publishing• OA Institutional Repositories• OA Data Repositories

Sherpa/JULIET [Research Funders' Open Access Policies]

Country Number

Brazil 0

Russia 0

India 0

China 2

South Africa 0Missing Policies from the Global South: e.g. India’s DST/DBT, CSIR, ICAR, NDSAP, etc.

Sherpa/RoMEO [Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving]

CountryNumber of Publishers

Found

Brazil 36

Russia 18

India 62

China 8

South Africa 16

Missing Publishers: India’s NISCAIR, INSA, ICMR, ICAR, etc.

Open Access Journals in BRICS Countries

Source: DOAJ.org Number

Brazil 942

Russia 98

India 597

China 77

South Africa 70Grand Total = 10,048 BRICS Total = 1784 (17.54% Contributions)

Data as on 04-11-2014

Open Access Journals in BRICS Countries (No Charges – Publishing Fee)

Source: DOAJ.org Number

Brazil 845

Russia 65

India 251

China 36

South Africa 37

Grand Total = 6436 BRICS Total = 1234 (19.17% Contributions)Global = 6436 / 10,048 = 64.05% OAJs have No Charges/ Publishing FeeBRICS = 1234 / 1784 =69.17% OAJs have No Charges/ Publishing Fee

Data as on 04-11-2014

Open Access Repositories in BRICS Countries

Source: OpenDOAR Number

Brazil 84

Russia 22

India 68

China 39

South Africa 29

Grand Total = 2726 BRICS Total = 242 (08.89% Contributions)Data as on 04-11-2014

OA Repositories in BRICS Countries as Indexed in “Ranking Web of Repositories”

Source: Repositories.webometrics.info

Country Number

Brazil 45

Russia 15

India 35

China 17

South Africa 22

Grand Total = 1983 BRICS Total = 134 (06.76% Contributions)Data as on 04-11-2014

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/top_portals

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Asia/India

http://dlnetsa.info/advanced-library-search/

Data Repositories in BRICS Countries

CountriesNumber in

Databib.orgNumber in

Re3Data.org

Brazil 6 2

Russia 10 12

India 28 26

China 25 18

South Africa 6 4

Re3Data = Registry of Research Data RepositoriesData as on 04-11-2014

http://www.datacite.org/

Clinical Trials Registry India

• The Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI.NIC.IN)• A free and online system for registration all clinical trials being conducted in

India • Set up at the National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi • Registration of clinical trials in the CTRI is now mandatory, as per notification

of the Drugs Controller General (India). • Trials registered in the CTRI are freely searchable, both from the CTRI site as

well as the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) of the WHO.• International Committee for Medical Journals Editors (ICMJE) released an

editorial statement on compulsory registration of clinical trials in 2004. • ICJME member journals now require, as a consideration for publication,

registration in a public trials registration.• About 1650 journals from across the world are listed with ICJME.org• About 50+ Indian journals are listed with ICJME

Conclusion• Global accessibility, visibility and collaborative research are increased in BRICS countries due to increased contributions to:

– Open Access (OA) Journals– OA Institutional Repositories

• However research institutions in BRICS countries need to establish:– OA Institutional Repositories– Open Data Repositories– Contents Produced with Creative Common (CC) Licenses– National/ Institutional Data Policies– National/ Institutional Open Access Policies

• Need to strengthen – Advocacy, Capacity Building & Awareness Raising on Open Access Publishing including Data Publishing and Self

Archiving in OA Repositories• Global Disciplinary• National/ Funder’s Level• Institutional

– Bidirectional Information Flows [i.e., online moderated comments from readers/ fellow researchers similar to newspapers’ or blogs’ comments]

– Interfaces of Researchers and Journal Editors– Civil Society Participation in Policy Debates >> Formation of Advocacy Groups– Knowledge Networking amongst Research Institutions in the Global South

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