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Open Access: What Scientists Think? A survey of researcher's attitude towards Open Access
No full textThe Internet has changed how we conduct and share research,
primarily by increasing the global reach of scholarly communication.
Today the world of information is divided between two views on costs
and business. One group believes that content should be freely
accessible for the development of further knowledge. The other group
believes that content should be maintained by market value for quality
products and incentives to the intellectual content.
Open Access (OA) has come from the growing interest of researchers in
experimenting with innovative mechanisms to disseminate their
research findings. However OA is still far behind what it should be in
the country like India. At least the scientific community is still in a
dilemma to embrace OA. This is what we find in our survey of
researcher's attitude towards OA. There are many reasons ranging from
lack of awareness, myths about OA and biasness towards traditional
publishing model for prestige & recognition.
We approached scientists of different research institutes and universities
around Kolkata with different age groups in different ways. Interesting
results have come out which clearly identified the major hurdles to
adopt OA by scientific community in India.
Keywords: Open Access, Scholarly Publications, Journal Publisher,
Citation and Impact Factor, Research Impact, Open Access Initiative,
Institutional Repositories and Usability Study
Report of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science for the year 2007-2008
No full textIACS Annual Report contains the yearly proceedings of the each division of the Association for the year 2007-08IAC
