Module 1: Introduction to open access

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dc.contributor.authorKanjilal, Uma
dc.contributor.authorDas, Anup Kumar
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-25T14:35:14Z
dc.date.available2024-05-25T14:35:14Z
dc.date.issued2015
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dc.description.abstractProgress of every profession, academic discipline and society at large rides on the back of research and development. Research generates new information and knowledge. It is a standardized process of identifying problem, collecting data or evidence, tabulating data and its analysis, drawing inference and establishing new facts in the form of information. Information has its life cycle: conception, generation, communication, evaluation and validation, use, impact and lastly a fuel for new ideas. Research results are published in journals, conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, reports, and now the web provides many a new forum for its communication. Since their origin in the 17th century, the journals have remained very popular and important channels for dissemination of new ideas and research. Journals have become inseparable organ of scholarship and research communication, and are a huge and wide industry. Their proliferation (with high mortality rate), high cost of production, cumbersome distribution, waiting time for authors to get published, and then more time in getting listed in indexing services, increasing subscription rates, and lastly archiving of back volumes have led to a serious problem known as “Serials Crisis”. The ICT, especially the internet and the WWW, descended from the cyber space to solve all these problems over night in the new avatar of e-journals. Their inherent features and versatility have made them immensely popular. Then in the beginning of the 21st century emerged the Open Access (OA) movement with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Philosophy of open access is to provide free of charge and unhindered access to research and its publications without copyright restrictions.
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ; Busitema University
dc.identifier.citationKanjilal, U. & Das, A. K. (2015). Module 1: Introduction to open access. Unesco
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-3-100074-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.60682/bfv5-wd46
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUnesco
dc.titleModule 1: Introduction to open access
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