Digital Repositories as Harbingers of Open Access in India

2013 ◽  
pp. 191-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Wasan ◽  
Rupak Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Statistical Institute ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Workflow Pattern ◽  
Indian Statistical ◽  
Search And Retrieval

Open Access (OA) is a noble cause as it removes all hurdles from free access to scholarly works and promotes knowledge sharing. The OA movement is strengthened by Institutional Repositories (IRs). IRs are based on institute-specific requirements, workflow pattern, metadata, and other related standards for different kinds of digital documents, search and retrieval requirements, and user interfaces at various levels. In India, some elite educational and research institutes such as the Indian Statistical Institute, some CSIR Laboratories, IITs, and IIMs have taken significant initiatives in building IRs. In addition, a few Universities, such as the Central University of Hyderabad, are working on building IRs. According to various databases, the total number of Indian IRs exceeds 40, but out of these only 25 are functional, while the rest of them are either non-functional or inaccessible. The present chapter is an effort to cover the various aspects of functional IRs in India.

Digital Repositories as Harbingers of Open Access in India

2015 ◽  
pp. 101-132
Author(s):  
Shalini Wasan ◽  
Rupak Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Statistical Institute ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Workflow Pattern ◽  
Indian Statistical ◽  
Search And Retrieval

Open Access (OA) is a noble cause as it removes all hurdles from free access to scholarly works and promotes knowledge sharing. The OA movement is strengthened by Institutional Repositories (IRs). IRs are based on institute-specific requirements, workflow pattern, metadata, and other related standards for different kinds of digital documents, search and retrieval requirements, and user interfaces at various levels. In India, some elite educational and research institutes such as the Indian Statistical Institute, some CSIR Laboratories, IITs, and IIMs have taken significant initiatives in building IRs. In addition, a few Universities, such as the Central University of Hyderabad, are working on building IRs. According to various databases, the total number of Indian IRs exceeds 40, but out of these only 25 are functional, while the rest of them are either non-functional or inaccessible. The present chapter is an effort to cover the various aspects of functional IRs in India.

Open Access Initiatives in Medical Biology

2016 ◽  
pp. 24-51
Author(s):  
Rupak Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Statistical Institute ◽  
Green Route ◽  
Indian Statistical ◽  
Communication Methods

Open Access (OA) is reshaping the world by redefining the scholarly communication methods with focus on building a knowledge society. It has the power to democratize the knowledge by removing hurdles from free access to scholarly works while encouraging knowledge sharing. Institutional Repositories (IRs) play a vital role in the OA movement by facilitating the Green Route to Open Access. In India, some elite educational and research institutes such as the Indian Statistical Institute, some CSIR Laboratories, IITs, and IIMs have taken significant initiatives in building IRs. In addition to theses, a few Universities have also taken the initiative and now have their own IRs as their proudest possession. However, many Indian Irs, once functional are in bad shape and a few have been closed. This paper deals with IR initiatives in the discipline of Medicine and Biology including. The paper discusses their scope, collection strength, growth rate and their current status.

scholarly journals Open Access Initiatives in Medical Biology

2017 ◽  
pp. 99-126
Author(s):  
Rupak Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Statistical Institute ◽  
Green Route ◽  
Indian Statistical ◽  
Communication Methods

Open Access (OA) is reshaping the world by redefining the scholarly communication methods with focus on building a knowledge society. It has the power to democratize the knowledge by removing hurdles from free access to scholarly works while encouraging knowledge sharing. Institutional Repositories (IRs) play a vital role in the OA movement by facilitating the Green Route to Open Access. In India, some elite educational and research institutes such as the Indian Statistical Institute, some CSIR Laboratories, IITs, and IIMs have taken significant initiatives in building IRs. In addition to theses, a few Universities have also taken the initiative and now have their own IRs as their proudest possession. However, many Indian Irs, once functional are in bad shape and a few have been closed. This paper deals with IR initiatives in the discipline of Medicine and Biology including. The paper discusses their scope, collection strength, growth rate and their current status.

scholarly journals Open-access policy and data-sharing practice in UK academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Access To Data

Data sharing can be defined as the release of research data that can be used by others. With the recent open-science movement, there has been a call for free access to data, tools and methods in academia. In recent years, subject-based and institutional repositories and data centres have emerged along with online publishing. Many scientific records, including published articles and data, have been made available via new platforms. In the United Kingdom, most major research funders had a data policy and require researchers to include a ‘data-sharing plan’ when applying for funding. However, there are a number of barriers to the full-scale adoption of data sharing. Those barriers are not only technical, but also psychological and social. A survey was conducted with over 1800 UK-based academics to explore the extent of support of data sharing and the characteristics and factors associated with data-sharing practice. It found that while most academics recognised the importance of sharing research data, most of them had never shared or reused research data. There were differences in the extent of data sharing between different gender, academic disciplines, age and seniority. It also found that the awareness of Research Council UK’s (RCUK) Open-Access (OA) policy, experience of Gold and Green OA publishing, attitudes towards the importance of data sharing and experience of using secondary data were associated with the practice of data sharing. A small group of researchers used social media such as Twitter, blogs and Facebook to promote the research data they had shared online. Our findings contribute to the knowledge and understanding of open science and offer recommendations to academic institutions, journals and funding agencies.

scholarly journals Visibility of scientific results Green Open Access in institutional repositories

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina V. Valeeva
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Free Access ◽  
State University ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Gold Open Access ◽  
Moscow State University

Open access gives free access to research publications and today, about 23% of scientific publications in Russia are in the public domain. How and to what extent an open access publication affects citation - issues that have been the subject of debate for quite some time, and of course, the type of open access in which the article is posted plays an important role here. Now, the most common are the “golden” and “green” types of open access, each of which has both advantages and disadvantages. The article presents the results of a study conducted in 2018, during which the degree of using the capabilities of Gold Open Access and Green Open Access by universities of the 5-100 project, as well as Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University and the RAS institutes (namely, the Ural Branch of the RAS and the SB RAS). The analysis included articles located in Scopus - Gold Open Access and Green Open Access. Also, as part of the study, the authors analyzed the case of the Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, in the framework of which the success of the institutional repository was evaluated Electronic scientific archive of Ural Federal University (elar.urfu).

scholarly journals Open Digital Repositories: Prospects of African Countries within the Global Information Space

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John I. Ogungbeni ◽  
Amaka Raymonda Obiamalu ◽  
Obiora Kingsley Udem
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Global Information ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
The World ◽  
World Information

This study examines the contributions of African countries to open digital repositories in the world information space. Two online directories of open digital repositories were used as data sources. The OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories listing 3,670 repositories as at 6th January, 2019. The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a directory of 4,580 institutional repositories and their contents as at 7th January, 2019. Extracted data were analysed using quantitative techniques and presented in tabular and pictorial formats to reveal findings in accordance with desired objectives. The results revealed that Dspace is the most preferred open digital repositories software across the world. The results showed that the contributions of African countries (3.78%) to open digital repositories in the world are low. The results also showed that only 22 African countries contribute to global open digital repositories and that the rate of contribution increased rapidly in the last few years. The study concludes that for Africa to overcome the challenges associated with open digital repositories there is need for more African countries to be involved in the African Open Access Initiative and the need to tap into the experiences of various professionals on the African continent

GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

 There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

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