Talk on 'Open Access to Agricultural Research and Education - Initiatives & Status' delivered at IIAB, Ranchi on 3rd Dec., 2016 on 1st Agricultural Education Day

1. Open Access to
Agricultural Research
and Education
@SridharGutam
(Initiatives & Status)

2. Open Access?
Open Access literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions
(Peter Suber, 2004)

3. How Open Access be Provided?
• "Green OA” is provided by authors
publishing in any journal and then self-
archiving their ’preprints’ or
’postprints’ in institutional repositories.
• "Gold OA” is provided by authors
publishing in an open access journal that
provides immediate access to all of its
articles on the publisher's website.

4. 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).

5. The Barriers
• No mandate for researchers to make
their data, information and knowledge
publicly accessible.
• Does not have infrastructure and tools
to make data, information and
knowledge openly accessible.
• Insufficient technical expertise on
opening up access to knowledge.
Source: CIARD

6. How to promote Open Access?
• Self archiving preprints/postprints in an open
access public repository.
• Submit your research articles to open access
journals.
• If you are a editorial board member or a reviewer
of a journal, influence it to transform into open
access.
• Consider launching an open access journal in your
area of specialization.
• Educate the next generation of scientists and
scholars about open access and its benefits.
• Advocate for open access mandate.

7. Open Access India
• Advocating Open Access, Open
Data and Open Education
• Launched as Facebook group on
July 8th, 2011
• Grown into Community of
Practice
• Membership 10000+

8. 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.

9. Preprints and Postprints
• Preprints
• First draft of the article - before
peer-review, even before any
contact with a publisher
• Postprints
• Version of the paper after peer-
review, with revisions having been
made.

10. Institutional Repositories
● “Institutional repositories increase visibility
and opportunities for researchers” -Sarah
Tanksalvala
● “Institute’s research reputation increases
when all the scholarly outputs are
showcased (abilities and expertise)”.

11. Institutional Repositories
• An Institutional Repository is an online locus for
collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital
form, the intellectual output of an institution
(INASP, 2013).

12. “everything else can wait, but not agriculture.” -Jawaharlal Nehru.
https://agrixiv.wordpress.com
Preprints for Agriculture

13. AgriXiv
• The Cornell University, which owns the
IP for ‘Xiv’ has given consent to use Xiv
with Agri (AgriXiv) under non-exclusive
and revocable license terms.
• The Open Science Framework (OSF) of
the Centre for Open Science has
agreed to host AgriXiv as a branded
preprint service without any charge
similar to the preprints services like
engrXiv, SocArXiv and PsyArXiv which
are being hosted with OSF.

14. Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
• Conference convened in Budapest by
the Open Society Institute on December
1–2, 2001 to promote open access
(Free Online Scholarship).
• On the occasion of the 10th anniversary
of the initiative (2012), recommended
"the new goal that within the next ten
years, OA will become the default
method for distributing new peer-
reviewed research in every field and
country”.

15. National Data Sharing and Access Policy
• Aims at the promotion of a technology-
based culture of data management as well
as data sharing and access.
• It opens up, proactively, information on
available data, which could be shared with
civil society for developmental purposes.
• The policy has limited its scope to data
owned by the agencies,
departments/Ministries and entities under
the Government of India.
http://www.dst.gov.in/national-data-sharing-and-accessibility-policy-0

16. ICAR Open Access Policy
http://icar.org.in/en/node/6609

17. ICAR - NARS Open Access
http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/

18. ICAR - NARS Open Access
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/

19. KRISHI – Data Repository
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/Index.jsp

20. http://agropedialabs.iitk.ac.in/openaccess/

21. http://aims.fao.org/

22. http://aginfra.eu/

23. http://www.ciard.info/

24. http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

26. DOAJ – Indian Journals

27. CC-BY
Source: OAJMAP

28. CC-BY Attribution 4.0
• You are free to:
• Share — copy and redistribute the
material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build
upon the material for any purpose,
even commercially.
• The licensor cannot revoke these
freedoms as long as you follow the
license terms.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

29. Source: SHERPA/RoMEO

30. SHERPA/RoMEO
Source: SHERPA/RoMEO

31. Figshare

35. https://orcid.org/

36. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5376-1565

37. https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-5376-1565

38. http://dissem.in/0000-0001-5376-1565/

39. http://openaccessweek.org/
Open Access Week

40. Open Education
• Open Education encompasses
resources, tools and practices that are
free of legal, financial and technical
barriers and can be fully used, shared
and adapted in the digital environment.
• Open Education maximizes the power of
the Internet to make education more
affordable, accessible and effective.
http://sparcopen.org/open-education/

41. Open Education Week
https://www.openeducationweek.org/

42. National Repository of Open
Educational Resources
http://nroer.gov.in/

43. e-Phatashala

44. http://ecourses.iasri.res.in/

45. http://www.oerafrica.org/agricultureoer

46. Thank you
gutam2000@gmail.com