Open Access Benefits to Scientists

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•Open Access: Benefits
to Scientists
•Sridhar Gutam
•2011

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•What is Open Access?
• refers to unrestricted online access to
articles published in scholarly journals,
and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs (Wikipedia).
• 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).

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• Open Access World

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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's History
• BOAI, 2001.
• Berlin Declaration, 2003.
• IAS
• INSA
• CSIR, 2009.
• ICAR, 2010.
• NARS
–UASD, KAU, IARI, CMFRI, IISR, IIHR

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•Adoption statistics

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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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•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 Scocieties keep 'All Rights Reseved'

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•Publishers OA models
Taylor & 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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•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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•Testimonials
 "Self-archiving in the PhilSci Archive has given instant
world-wide visibility to my work. As a result, I was invited
to submit papers to peer-reviewed conferences/journals
and got them accepted."
• Open Access repositories also provide an excellent means
for researchers to boost their online presence and raise
their profile. Since Google and other Web search engines
index OA repositories, the contents are available to all
with Web access.

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•Testimonials
 A researcher at the Queensland University of
Technology in Brisbane, Australia... a chemist,
Ray Frost.
 He has deposited in QUT's repository around
300 of his papers published over the last few
years.
• These papers have beendownloaded 165,000
times from the QUT repository.

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•Testimonials
• Publications & Citations of Ray Frost, QUT, Brisbane

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•Green OA Mandate

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• E-Repository@IIHR

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• DSpice@IISR

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• OpenAgri

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• Eprints@IARI

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• Eprints@CMFRI

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• OA Journals using OJS

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• KAU's JTROPAGRI

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• UASD's KJAS

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• ICAR's epubs

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What Next??
 Establishment of Institutional Repository at CISH, Lucknow
 Launching of OA journal – Journal of Subtropical Horticulture by SDSH

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•OA Resources
• Open Access India
https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/
• Open Access Directory
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
• Enabling Open Scholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org
• Open Access Week Oct 24-30, 2011
http://www.openaccessweek.org/

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Thank you All....