Open Access in India with Special Reference to Indian Medical Journals
https://doi.org/10.31432/1994-2443-2019-14-3-4-7-18
Abstract
In India poor access to national and international journals and poor visibility of research papers are among the major problems of major problems faced by Indian researcher. India is in top 10 publishers of research articles and stands fifth in whole world according to the number of articles published in the year 2018 the year 2018, accessible, from India. By a rough estimate Indian researchers publish 0.17 million articles per year. However, 79 percent of these are not openly accessible. As of April 2018 the Directory of Open Access Journals lists only 212 out of the 20,000 plus journals being published from India. Open Access medical journals publishing in India is gaining momentum. Publishers like Indian Medlar centre, publishing 68 Indian Open Access medical journals. Medknow Publications, one of the largest open access publishers of medical content in the world publishes over 370 online high-quality peer-reviewed medical society journals in over 42 medical specialties. IndianJournals.com too indexed 36 Open Access journals out which 5 are dedicated to medical specialties. Despite of all these achievements a lot more is to be done in Open access publication of medical literature in India.
About the Author
Arvind Dubey
Hind Institute of Medical sciences
Singapore
Singapore
MBBS, DCH, MD(Pediatrics), FICMCH
Professor of pediatrics
Ataria, Mobile: 073556 04543
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Dubey A. Open Access in India with Special Reference to Indian Medical Journals. Information and Innovations. 2019;14(3-4):7-18. https://doi.org/10.31432/1994-2443-2019-14-3-4-7-18
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