Presentation by Prof. Devika P Madalli for the Open Access India's Open Access Week 2016 Webinars

1. Open Access – An
Introduction
Devika P. Madalli
DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute
Bangalore

2. What Is Open Access?
● Open access is the practice of providing
unrestricted access to peer-reviewed
scholarly journal articles (and reuse
rights) [Peter Suber]

3. Introduction
• Open Access (OA) has revolutionized
the ways of
▪ Scholarly communication
▪ Academic scholarship
• Emerging as an alternative publishing
model with greater advantages
• Getting more into the domain of Open
Economy – where learning, content,
education is seamless and open.

4. Some important points about Open Access
● Open access is a cost-effective way to disseminate
and use information
● Open access operates within the current legal
framework of copyright law
● Open access is intended to be free for readers, not
free for producers
● Open access focuses on academic research
● Open access and peer review
● Open Access Definition - (ARL), 2004

5. Open Access - Timeline
● In December 2001, Budapest Open
Access Initiative was born
● In April 2003, the Bethesda Statement
on Open Access Publishing was released
● In October 2003, the Berlin Declaration
on Open Access to Knowledge in the
Sciences and Humanities was declared

6. Open Access Constitutes…
● Open access (OA) comes in two forms,
Gratis and Libre.
◦ Gratis OA is free online access
◦ Libre OA is free online access plus some
additional usage rights. OA's primary target
content is articles published in scholarly
journals. (Wikipedia, 2011)

7. Open Publishing Models
● There are variety of publishing models
emerging in Open Access
▪ Self-archiving journals/articles in
institutional settings.
▪ Open-access journals in organizational
settings.
▪ Vendor Journal Publishing Systems.

8. Cross-section of Open Access
•Open Access
•Open Attributes of Metadata
•Open Content Development
•Open Educational Resources
•Open Institutional Repositories

9. 2 Models of OA Publishing
● Green Model
▪ Research community can deposit their
publications in an OA institutional repository
by means of self-archiving, and institutional
policies.
● Gold Model
▪ Publishers convert and commit to OA
journals

10. Major Institutional Repositories
● DSpace
● EPrints

11. Open Access Resources
● Directory of Open Access Repositories
[openDOAR -
http://www.opendoar.org/]
◦ OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access
repositories
● DOAJ [https://doaj.org/ ]
◦ DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that
indexes and provides access to high quality, open
access, peer-reviewed journals.

12. SHERPA
(http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/)
● SHERPA developing open-access institutional
repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and
efficient worldwide dissemination of research.
● SHERPA services
◦ RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies
◦ JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines
◦ OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories
◦ SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories
◦ SHERPA/FACT is a tool to help researchers check if the
journals in which they wish to publish their results comply with
their funder's requirements for open access to research.

13. INASP [http://www.inasp.info/en/]
INASP with its global network of
partners in Africa, Latin America and
Asia, works to support individuals and
institutions to produce, share and use
research and knowledge.

14. Challenges
● Building consensus among stakeholders
● Copyrights issues
● Recruiting content and management of
digital content life cycle
● Licensing content and models

15. Advantages
● Open software gives more powerful
features, in building institutional
repositories at no-cost or less cost
● Citation rate is likely high; if the article is
on Web then its citability is relatively
high.
● Exposition of existence of scholarly
communication is more in digital media
● Visibility of institutions are gauged on
their output

16. Importance
● Developing countries woes are
addressed in many ways to build open
content
● Democratization of knowledge: Open
access of information is lifeline for
developing countries
● Diminishing resources allocation, and
funds necessitate to embrace open
resources

17. Open Access Principles, [Madalli, D, 2011]
● Free knowledge from shackles of economic
compulsions
‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’.
● Making a case for Open Access: establish it
‘Scholarship is the same; priced or open’.
● Be optimistic, working towards national level
policies and Mandates
‘If one is convinced, others will be too’.

18. References
● Alma Swan. Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of
open access. UNESCO. 2012.
● Association of Research Libraries, ARL, 2004: “Framing the Issue Open
Access.” Available at
http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/framing.html accessed on
February 28, 2004; last modifications then cited February 26, 2004.)
● http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?format=charts
● http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
● Peter Suber. "Open Access Overview". Earlham.edu.2011
● Peter Suber.."Gratis and Libre Open Access“. 2008
● Stevan Harnad,. etal ."The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and
Gold Roads to Open Access". Serials Review. 30 (4): 310–314. 2004.

19. Resources
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ac
cess
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevan_
Harnad
● https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki
/Peter_Suber
● http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
● https://doaj.org/
● http://openaccessindia.org/