Bist, Rajender Singh; Mohanty, V Patnaik(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Abstract:
Open access is a new trend in scholarly communication which aims at providing free
access to scholarly literature over the internet and has gained enormous momentum in
the recent years. Although OA started and has grown from the pockets of regional
initiatives in the developing countries, it is appealing to developing countries and is
spreading throughout the world quickly facilitated by common technical standards and
open source software. OA endeavors to reduce the price and permission barriers to
scholarly communication and the scholarly literature are freely accessible now without
any hindrance. This paper outlines the OA concept and specific Indian initiatives are
mentioned and described. In addition this paper also evaluates the OA movement in
India and concludes with suggestions and recommendations for improving the OA scenario
in India.