Dr. SARIKA SAWANTS.H.P.T SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCESNDT WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

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Open Access Publishing and its implications on Commercial Publishers

“permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself.”

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

Open Access Journals (Golden Road)

Self-Archiving of E-Prints (Green Road)

Primary Sources

Drivers of Open Access Publishing• An increasing audience with widespread

access to the Internet• Increasing concern over the preservation of

digital scholarly research material• Reductions in the cost of online storage• Improvements in search and harvesting

technology• A desire to publish new and supporting

material in different formats

Drivers of Open Access Publishing• An escalating financial burden on libraries

‘journal-affordability problem’ or the ‘serials crisis’

• Open Access journals Demand for immediate dissemination and research impact

• Support for the view that the results of research funded by public money are ‘public goods’ and should be made freely available to the public

• Increased pressure on academics to publish, longer lead times in print publishing, and increasing author dissatisfaction with the process

Current status of OA publishing in India

• 230 Open Access journals • 4 cross institutional archives • 2 cross institutional ETD repositories • 22 institutional repositories

Different models of Journal publishing adopted by commercial publishers•PartialOA•Optional OA

Permission of self archiving granted to authors by commercial punishers

Implications of OA Publishing on Commercial Publishers

Transformation of subscribed journal into OA journal

Collaborative plan to provide free access to literature for the general public.

Implications of OA Publishing on Commercial Publishers

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