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[Sridhar Gutam]

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Access in India





A Global View of Open Access - Part 6: A perspective on Open Access in India



*Tony Hey - Vice President, Microsoft Research*

I am very pleased to introduce the sixth and last article in this series of
snapshots of the progress towards open access around the globe. Muthu
Madhan, manager of Library and Information Services at the International
Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Patancheru,
Hyderabad (www.icrisat.org) has kindly updated his 2011 status report on: "Open
Access to Scholarly Literature in India -- A Status Report
<http://cis-india.org/openness/publications/open-access-scholarly-literature.pdf>".
In this blog entry he reports on the recent developments on OA in India as
well as summarizes its origins.

Open Access discussions began surprisingly early in India, dating back to a
talk given by Stevan Harnad in September 2000. The first institutional
repository was set up next year at the Indian Institute of Science in
Bangalore. Unfortunately, although the report details many expressions of
support for open access, there have been very few institutional or funder
mandates that have been implemented to encourage the deposit of the full
text of research articles. ICRISAT is one of the few institutions that has
set up a repository and introduced a mandate.

The situation seems a missed opportunity for Indian researchers but open
access in India is complicated by the emergence of 100s of new 'predatory
journals' claiming to offer open access for a fee. There is clearly much
work to be done to realize true open access in India and it is to be hoped
that OA initiatives
<http://www.globalresearchcouncil.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/grc_action_plan_open_access%20FINAL.pdf>
such as that championed by the Global Research can help make a real
difference.

http://tonyhey.net/2014/06/03/a-global-view-of-open-access-part-6/

Sridhar Gutam, PhD, ARS
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