Panorama of Open Access: Progress, Practices and Prospects

Contents: Preface. PART 1 : OPEN ACCESS : AN OVERVIEW 1 Open Access : Ushering in New Dimension to Information Services 2 Leveraging the Open Access Over Traditional Journals: Making Open Choice PART 2 : MEASURING QUALITY OF OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION 3 Improving Research Impact with Publications in Open Access Journals 4 How Green is My Valley? Measuring Open Access Friendliness of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) through Data Carpentry 5 A Qualitative Analysis of Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Asian Countries 6 Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to Predict the Trend of Quality of Open Access Journals in DOAJ : An Experimental Study PART 3 : OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING MODELS AND MARKET 7 Open Access Publishing Models: A Conceptual Approach 8 Impact of Open Access Journals in Publishing Market: A Study PART 4 : OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES 9 Initiatives and Implementation of Open Access by DST and DBT Government Organizations in India 10 A Comparative Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives in SAARC Countries PART 5 : OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING SYSTEM AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS 11 Trends of Open Access Publishing in India 12 Open Peer Review Promoting Transparency and Integrity in Scholarly OA Publishing: A Review 13 AMBRA: An Open Source Platform for Publishing Scholarly Articles PART 6 : COPYRIGHT ISSUES OF OPEN ACCESS 14 Research Visibility in Scopus Indexed Journals of LIS and their Copyright Policies : An Empirical Study PART 7 : INFORMATION LITERACY THROUGH OPEN ACCESS AND ROLE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRES 15 Information Literacy for Rural Communities vis-a-vis Open Access to Information: Designing a Panchayat–based e-Governance Model for Rural Bengal 16 From Universe of Knowledge to Universal Knowledge: A Linked Open Data Approach for Library and Information Centres 17 Role of LIS Professionals in Promoting the Usage of Open Access: A Case Study Index Open Access which is free and unrestricted access to research outputs for anyone, anywhere has emerged to be a sine-qua-non for meeting information needs in the present era. A comprehensive and coherent approach to the concept of open access, its foundation and prevailing status has been accentuated in this book. It establishes open access as an effective instrument towards dissemination of information in the digital age. Besides a companion to researchers, scholars and students from LIS as well as ranging across disciplines, this book is an important read which anticipates answering queries relevant to open access publishing and implementation process through evidence based instances.…