Friends, This is in continuation of my previous message on the ASIS&T Publication Committee Survey on OA practices. Here is what Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram, one of India's leading scientists and a longtime editor of *Current Science*, has said on the subject way back in 2008 (and repeated it in several of his talks in later years): [image: image.png] Over the years, I have spoken about this issue to parliamentarians of different parties, Secretaries to the Govt of India (in science and higher education related Departments and Ministries), two Principal Scientific Advisors, Presidents of Academies and a very large number of scientists and academic and research librarians. But India is yet to adopt a sensible open access policy, stop paying atrocious amounts of public money as APC to overseas publishers and our researchers continue to surrender copyright to their works as easily as throwing away waste paper into the bins. with best wishes, Subbiah Arunachalam On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:11 PM Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends,

Very few members of this listserv (LIS-Forum) are likely to be members of ASIS&T. I am not a member currently. In any case, here are my views:

1. The best practice of OA publishing is to place one's papers in a non-commercial preprint server, e.g. arXiv, or an interoperable institutional or global Eprints repository. Organizations such as the International Science Council and COAR and individuals like Professors Bjoern Brembs and Luke Drury are strong advocates of the preprints route to open access. If you have already published papers in journals, OA or non-OA, you might want to place full texts of all of them in Zenodo.org, which allows you to have a personal profile. [Zenodo is a free, open-source data repository for research outputs from all disciplines and around the world. It was developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2013 and is built on the Invenio digital library. Zenodo accepts all types of research outputs, including data files, presentation files, and closed and restricted content. It stores data in the CERN Data Center, which provides long-term preservation.]

2. One should never pay a publisher to get one's paper published. Often people make such payments from the grants they receive to perform research from funding agencies, mostly Govt agencies. This amounts to transferring taxpayers' money to a publisher, often a foreign commercial publisher. This is simply unethical and immoral.

3. One should never surrender copyright to a journal publisher. Copyright should always be owned by the creator and not an intermediary.

My experiences:

In the past I have published in many journals owned by commercial publishers, largely because I was on their editorial boards, e.g. *Journal of Information Science* (the flagship journal of CILIP, but run by commercial entities), *Scientometrics* (published by Akadémiai Kiadó, but in partnership with a commercial publisher). I have published often in *Current Science* (owned by the Current Science Association, Bengaluru) and *JSIR* and *Annals* (run by CSIR).

I have NEVER paid to get my articles published.

With best wishes,

Subbiah Arunachalam

On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 10:25 AM Shalini Urs wrote:

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Dear friends,

The ASIS&T Publications Committee is conducting a survey to collect feedback about Open Access publishing: please let us know about your experiences and practices with OA publishing, how important OA is to you, and your experiences with OA payment and funding. The survey information will be used by the Publications Committee to sample ASIS&T membership’s experience with and perceptions of OA publishing and funding. Please take the survey Dr. Shalini Urs

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