Open Access To Scholarly Communication In India : Current Status

Abstract

This study aims to examine the growth and development of Open Access (OA) initiatives in India. The study is based on a brief survey of literature and data collected from Web of Science™-Core Collection, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). This study also looks at India's position in the global Open Access in terms of its ranking with regards to the total OA Journals, total research output, OA gold papers. Study reveals that inspite of its relatively lower position in OA gold papers, India's position in terms of share of gold OA publications is relatively higher than other leading countries of the world. Some Government departments like University Grants Commission (UGC) and governing bodies of the major research councils, such as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), have mandated OA and self-archiving for their journals. Despite the large amount of scholarly research literature produced in India, its position in terms of quality research is missing from the global stage, largely because most of the research literature is published in local journals, as well as the quality of research output is often below the global standard. A radical reform is, therefore, needed in OA scholarly publishing system to address these issues.

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