Open Access In India

In India, the Open Access (उन्मुक्त अभिगम) movement started in May 2004, when two workshops were organized by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai. In 2006, the National Knowledge Commission in its recommendations proposed that "access to knowledge is the most fundamental way of increasing the opportunities and reach of individuals and groups". In 2011, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) began requiring that its grantees provide open access to funded research, the Open Access India forum formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India. The Shodhganga, a digital repository for theses, was also established in 2011 with the aim of promoting and preserving academic research. The University Grants Commission (UGC) made it mandatory for scholars to deposit their theses in Shodhganga, as per the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M. Phil./Ph.D. Degrees Regulations, 2016. Currently, the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 326 open access journals published in India, of which 233 have no fees.]

Landmarks

* 2004 - First workshop on Open Access and Institutional Repositories by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai.
* 2006 - India's first institutional mandate of open access adopted by the National institute of Technology, Rourkela.
* 2008 - First UNESCO book on OA released in India titled "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario

* 2009 - National Knowledge Commission recommends Open Educational Resourc


* 2011
Open Access India
formed
*2011 - Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) constitute
committee
for implementation o
Open Access policy
in CSIR.
*2011 - UGC and INFLIBNET Centre launched the Shodhganga : A Reservoir of Indian Theses, to disseminate theses and dissertations produced in Indian universities.
*2013 - National Repository of Open Educational Resources
* 2013 - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) adopte
Open Access policy
for the establishment of Open Access institutional repositories in the ICAR institutes
* 2014 - Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) jointly mad
funders mandate for Open Access to the research outputs funded by the DBT/DST

* 2016 - UG
Mandates
M. Phil & Ph.D. thesis deposition.
* 2017 - Open Access India had developed and submitted a draft
National Open Access Policy
to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Science & Technology.
* 2017 - AgriXiv, preprints repository launched by Open Access India with the support of the Centre for Open Science.
*2018 - The "Delhi Declaration on Open Access" in South Asia was issued on 14 February 2018, signed by dozens of academics and supporters.
*2018 - The University Grants Commission's thesis repository, Shodhganga which is in place due to the Ministry of HRD's directives, encourages the authors to tag the submissions with Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
*2019 - IndiaRxiv, India's preprint repository launched by the Open Access India community.
*2019 - Open Access India join
AmeliCA
in taking forward the 'non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly communications' in India
*2020 - AgriXiv is relaunched as agriRxiv by jointly by the Open Access India and CABI.
* 2020
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020 (draft)
propose to make preprints and post prints available through a central repository.
* 2022
IndiaRxiv
relaunched using Open Preprint Systems of Public Knowledge Project.
* 2022 - Th
Central University of Haryana adopted
Open Access Policy
* 2024 - The Open Access India community launche
IndiaJOL
a Diamond Open Access platform for not for profit scholarly journals

Forums

The Open Access India forum was started in 2011 as an online forum and as a community of practice. The members of the community of practice
Open Access India
had adapted the PLOS's Open Access logo and modified it to represent it as the Open Access movement in India and had formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India.

Journals

As of April 2022, the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 326 open access journals which are being published from India of which, 233 are having no Article Processing Charges.. Titles include the '' Indian Journal of Community Medicine,'' '' Indian Journal of Medical Research'', '' Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology'' and '' Journal of Horticultural Sciences.''

Repositories

As of April 2018, there are at least 78 collections of scholarship in India housed in digital open access repositories. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. The Open Access India with the help of Centre for Open Science had launched a preprint repository for India
IndiaRxiv
on 5 August 2019 which had recently crossed 100 records mark. However, it is not accepting the records currently on its OSF but there is an update of resumption on new website. The Open Access India earlier had launched AgriXiv, preprints repository for agriculture and allied sciences which is now currently with CABI as agriRxiv.

See also

* National Digital Library of India
* Internet in India
* Education in India
* Media of India
* Science and technology in India
* Copyright law of India
* List of libraries in India
* Open access in other countries

References

Further reading

* Guttikonda, A., & Gutam, S. (2009)
Prospects of open access to Indian agricultural research: A case study of ICAR
''First Monday'', ''14''(7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v14i7.2488
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