Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?
Authors : Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Subbiah Arunachalam We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers publ...
Étiquette : India
Role of Open Access Digital Repositories (OADR) on Information Seeking Behavior among Research Scholars: A study
Author : Veena G The main purpose of the study is to examine the role of Open Access Digital Repositories on Information Seeking Behavior among Research Scholar...
Sharing of Knowledge among Faculty in a Mega Open University
Authors : Sujata Santosh, Santosh Panda Developments in ICTs and knowledge societies have revolutionized the traditional paradigms of education. There is a lot ...
Open Access Temptations: Buyer Beware
Backlash against “megapublishers” which began in mathematics a decade ago has led to an exponential growth in open access journals. Their increasing numbe...
Sweat, Skepticism, and Uncharted Territory : A Qualitative Study of Opinions on Data Sharing Among Public Health Researchers and Research Participants in Mumbai, India
Efforts to internalize data sharing in research practice have been driven largely by developing international norms that have not incorporated opinions from res...
Study of Open Access Publishing in Social Sciences and its Implications for Libraries
The Open Access Movement (OAM), which started as a gradual realisation by authors mainly in biomedical sciences to make available results of public-funded resea...
Indian research going global: A study on the status of open access publishing
Aims to measure quantitatively the scholarly journals which were produced with full immediate open access (OA) from 2003 to 2013. Focuses on the amount of India...