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KMID : 0191120190340270180
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Journal of Korean Medical Science
2019 Volume.34 No. 27 p.180 ~ p.180
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Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives
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Misra Durga Prasanna
Agarwal Vikas
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Abstract
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Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA. The proportion of OA publications from India is significant in a global context, and Indian journals are increasingly available on OA repositories such as Pubmed Central, and Directory of Open Access Journals. However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges. There is a need to increase awareness amongst Indian academics regarding publication practices, including OA, and its potential benefits, and utilize this modality of publication whenever feasible, as in publicly-funded research, or when platinum OA is available, while avoiding falling prey to poor quality OA journals.
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KEYWORD
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Open Access Publishing, Publication Models, Predatory Journals, Bibliography as Topic, PubMed Central, Directory of Open Access Journals, Plan S
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