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Open Access : India Is Moving Towards Third World Superpower View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by E-LIS Open Access : India is moving towards Third world Superpower Dr (Smt) Mangala Hirwade Dr (Smt) D. Rajyalakshmi Librarian Reader and Head Shivaji Science College DLIS, RTM Nagpur University Congress Nagar, Nagpur Nagpur [email protected] [email protected] Abstract The past few years have seen tremendous developments in information production, acquisition, and dissemination. Budgetary restrictions in research libraries have led to a period known as the serial cutting era. The new millennium has also ushered in the concept of the virtual library with seamless access to an integrated collection of print, electronic, and multimedia resources regardless of their physical location or ownership. Research scientists, policy makers, and reference librarians the world over are coming together to introduce reforms to make scientific knowledge affordable. Providing access to information free of charge in electronic formats is a concept that is gaining momentum. Open Access is one step ahead of Free Access. Open Access holds promise to remove both price and permission barriers to the scientific communication by using Internet. The present paper outlines the features of open access and the two vehicles viz. open access journals and open access archives. A few current open access initiatives in India are described in detail. In India, there is a large opportunity for open access publishing but still the number of registered archives is very less. Indian scientific communities and organizations like Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Indian National Science Academy, NISCAIR, INFLIBNET, etc are now actively taking initiatives towards creation of institutional repositories and providing open access to their publications. 1. Introduction Open access to scholarly information is a burning issue in web based education and research nowadays. Open access has become an increasingly important and potentially divisive issue in recent years as journal inflation rates have increased. For many librarians and scholars, journal price inflation is itself the central problem and open access is the solution. Open Access holds promise to remove both price and permission barriers to the scientific communication by using Internet. In fact, 'Open access' (OA) is a step ahead of “Free Access” which removes just the price barriers by providing free access to end users. Open Access removes the permission barrier as well. In other words, under Open Access, the end-user not only has free access to the content but also have the right to further distribute the content. 2. Salient features of Open Access (OA) The salient features of Open Access are [1] • Open access literature is digital, free of charge and free of copyright • OA is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue, print, preservation, prestige, career advancement, indexing and supportive services associated with conventional scholarly literature • OA campaign focuses on the literature that authors give to the world without expectation of payment 1 • OA literature is not free to produce or publish • OA is compatible with peer review and all the major OA initiative for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance 3. Vehicles of Open Access There are two primary vehicles for delivering open access to research literature viz.[1] • Open Access Journals • Open Access Archives 3.1 Open Access Journals OA Publishing is just like any other journal publishing. Like traditional publishing, it involves peer reviewing of submitted articles from authors and publishing. Published content is freely accessible over Internet and the users have right to download, use and further distribute it with proper attribution. The business model is however different here. In traditional publishing model, it is the “end-user” that pays to access the paper. Open access journals cost money to produce and distribute, especially since they are peer reviewed and edited like conventional journals. Various funding strategies are in use like, direct author fees, institutional memberships to sponsor all or part of author fees, funding agency payment of author fees, grants to open access publishers and institutional subsidies. 3.2 Open Access Archives OA Self-Archiving model is liberal on peer review. It simply provides persistent digital repository where authors / owners of the content may archive their documents (Pre-referred or post-referred). Self archiving can be achieved in three ways viz. • Putting articles on author web sites • Depositing articles in disciplinary archives • Depositing articles in institutional archives and repositories 4. Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) Open access works are scattered across many disciplinary archives, institutional e-print archives, institutional repositories and open access journals. Therefore, it is difficult for scholars to locate all needed works on a particular subject. One important international movement to solve this problem is the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), which aims to develop and promote the use of a standard protocol, known as the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAMHP), designed for better sharing and retrieval of e-prints residing in distributed archives. [2] 5. Directories of Open Access Journals There are four main open access journal directories viz. 2 5.1 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) The Directory of Open Access Journals, which is maintained by Lund University Libraries, is the most important directory of open access journals. The aim of the DOAJ is to "increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact." It "aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content." There are now 1927 journals in the directory. Currently 470 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 80843 articles are included in the DOAJ service. (as on 24.11.05). DOAJ can be searched in three ways viz. by journal name, title of the article and subject. It has been observed that DOAJ covers maximum journals in Social Sciences. There are 54 Library and Information Science journals reported in DOAJ. [3] Table No. 1: Subject wise availability of OA journals in DOAJ as on 24.11.05 Sr. No. Type of e-pint No. of Journals Percentage 1 Social Sciences 424 22.00 Library and Information Science (54) 2 Health Sciences 294 15.26 3 Earth and Environmental Sc 148 7.68 4 Technology & Engineering 144 7.47 5 Agriculture and food Science 108 5.61 6 Languages and Literature 99 5.14 7 Mathematics & Statistics 85 4.41 8 Law & Political science 83 4.31 9 History & Archaeology 76 3.94 10 Biology & Life Science 75 3.89 11 Philosophy & Religion 60 3.11 12 Physics & Astronomy 46 2.39 13 Arts & Architecture 46 2.39 14 Business & Economics 45 2.34 15 Chemistry 44 2.28 16 General work 18 0.93 17 Science General 06 0.31 18 Others 126 6.54 Total 1927 100 5.2 Free Full Text This directory "provides direct links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration)." Although the only access to the included journals is by browsing an A- Z title list, the depth of coverage of this directory is hard to beat, and users of the Google toolbar (or similar search engine toolbars) can use it to search this site for desired journals.[4] 5.3 Free Medical Journals This directory was "created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet." The journals indexed are sorted by specialty and language (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and others). In addition, the site provides information about some free 3 medical journals' impact factor. An e-mail alert service to new free medical journals is also available. [5] 5.4 HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles Pioneering e-publisher HighWire Press, which is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, offers this alphabetical directory of scientific and medical journals that it publishes that offer full or partial free access to their contents. Over 840,000 freely available articles are included in this directory. [6] 6. OA initiatives in Library and Information Science A disciplinary archive provides access to e-prints for one scholarly discipline or multiple scholarly disciplines. A disciplinary archive can be searched or browsed. One popular example of a disciplinary archive is arXiv, [7] which covers physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science and quantitative biology. Following two are the famous disciplinary archives for Library and Information Science. • E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science http://eprints.rclis.org • DList, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/ 6.1 E-LIS E-LIS was formed in 2003 for the deposit of documents in the Library and Information Science (LIS) domain. It is the first international e-server in this subject area. E-LIS resulted from the RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) project and the DoIS (Documents in Information Sciences), promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It has been observed that maximum
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