Open Access Journal Publishing in India: A study with OJS Software
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2009-02-25
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INFLIBNET Center.
Abstract
India, the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Economic
reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy. It has one of the largest
English speaking populations in the world. India offers one of the largest higher education systems
in the world. It has around 300 universities with 15000 Colleges of Engineering, Medical, Arts,
Humanities, Social Sciences, Commerce, Science and Management Education out of which nearly
10000 Ph.Ds are being awarded every year. Scholarly journals are considered to be the main carrier
of quality scholarly knowledge. In majority of the cases public money is utilized in research projects.
Scientists and scholars working on these projects produce articles containing research results.
These are sent to scholarly journals for publication. These articles carrying nascent information are
expected to generate new cycles of knowledge. However the traditional process of publishing system
of print-only journals prevent easy and quick access to these articles. Providing open access to the
research work will help the researchers, especially in the developing world, to have access to the
research literature from across the world. The paper outlines the features of one of most popular open
source software Open Journal Systems (OJS) for Open access journal publishing. More and more
number of open access journals in India will bring a significant increase in the productivity and
visibility of Indian scientific research.
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Open Access, OJS