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Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives
Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with pl...
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The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6624418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31293108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e180 |
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author | Misra, Durga Prasanna Agarwal, Vikas |
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description | Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA. The proportion of OA publications from India is significant in a global context, and Indian journals are increasingly available on OA repositories such as Pubmed Central, and Directory of Open Access Journals. However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges. There is a need to increase awareness amongst Indian academics regarding publication practices, including OA, and its potential benefits, and utilize this modality of publication whenever feasible, as in publicly-funded research, or when platinum OA is available, while avoiding falling prey to poor quality OA journals. |
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spelling | pubmed-66244182019-07-17 Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives Misra, Durga Prasanna Agarwal, Vikas J Korean Med Sci Opinion Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA. The proportion of OA publications from India is significant in a global context, and Indian journals are increasingly available on OA repositories such as Pubmed Central, and Directory of Open Access Journals. However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges. There is a need to increase awareness amongst Indian academics regarding publication practices, including OA, and its potential benefits, and utilize this modality of publication whenever feasible, as in publicly-funded research, or when platinum OA is available, while avoiding falling prey to poor quality OA journals. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6624418/ /pubmed/31293108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e180 Text en © 2019 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Opinion Misra, Durga Prasanna Agarwal, Vikas Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title | Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title_full | Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title_fullStr | Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title_full_unstemmed | Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title_short | Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives |
title_sort | open access publishing in india: coverage, relevance, and future perspectives |
topic | Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6624418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31293108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e180 |
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