Open Access Movement in Medicine: A Study of Contribution of Different States of India

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2013-03-23

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INFLIBNET Centre

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The paper is an endeavor to reveal the growth of open access (OA) literature in medicine across various states of India. The study has taken data for five year period i.e. 2005 – 2009 to understand the growth and contribution of various states of India to OA literature in medicine. The study worked at the article level to see the contribution of various states of Indiain OA journals. For this Elsevier’s Scopus database indexed OA journals were used to identify the top contributing states of Indiaand their corresponding research output.

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Open Access, Open Access – Medicine, Open Access – India

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