Current Status of Open Access Journals in India: A Bird’s Eye View

Serials Librarian Pub Date : 2022-11-17 DOI:10.1080/0361526X.2023.2183926

N. Barik, Puspanjali Jena

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ABSTRACT The present study aims to determine the current status of open access journals published in India in terms of numbers, yearly growth, funding organizations, major subject area, indexing, and abstracting status, publication charges, and open access licensing models of such journals. The study used the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as the source database and retrieved the bibliographic records of selected 306 Open Access (OA) journals published in India from 2003 to May 20, 2021. Further, the study referred to other web sources such as Web of Science, and Scopus to examine the indexing status of 306 open access journals and Journal Citation Report (JCR) database was referred to know the impact factor (IF) status of these journals. As per DOAJ database records, India ranks 16th as an OA journal publishing country across the globe. The yearly growth of open access journals in India was found to be 22.36%. Among these 306 open access journals, about 44.11% of journals are indexed in Scopus, 34.96% of journals are indexed in Web of Science, and 7.18% of journals with impact factor (IF) are indexed in JCR. Almost 74% of open access journals published in India do not charge Article Processing Charges (APC). The quality and quantity of OA journals published in India will surely attract authors, researchers, and academicians to rethink open access journals and their extensive use will boost the impact of research in India.

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摘要本研究旨在确定印度出版的开放获取期刊的数量、年度增长、资助组织、主要学科领域、索引和摘要状态、出版费用以及开放获取许可模式等方面的现状。该研究使用开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）作为源数据库，检索了2003年至2021年5月20日在印度出版的306种开放获取期刊的书目记录。此外，该研究参考了其他网络来源，如web of Science和Scopus，以检查306种开放获取期刊的索引状态，并参考了期刊引文报告（JCR）数据库，以了解这些期刊的影响因素（IF）状态。根据DOAJ数据库记录，印度在全球OA期刊出版国排名第16位。印度开放获取期刊的年增长率为22.36%。在这306种开放获取期刊中，约44.11%的期刊在Scopus中索引，34.96%的期刊在Web of Science中索引，7.18%的具有影响因子（IF）的期刊在JCR中索引。在印度出版的开放获取期刊中，近74%不收取文章处理费。在印度出版的OA期刊的质量和数量肯定会吸引作者、研究人员和院士重新思考开放获取期刊，它们的广泛使用将提高印度研究的影响力。

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Serials Librarian Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

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期刊介绍： The Serials Librarian is an international journal covering all aspects of the management of serials and other continuing resources in any format—print, electronic, etc.—ranging from their publication, to their abstracting and indexing by commercial services, and their collection and processing by libraries. The journal provides a forum for discussion and innovation for all those involved in the serials information chain, but especially for librarians and other library staff, be they in a single (continuing resources) department or in collection development, acquisitions, cataloging/metadata, or information technology departments.

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