MUMBAI: Indian researchers shelled out US $17 million in 2020 to publish their work and maintain it as open entry. Cumulatively, round $30 million was spent by researchers globally, reflecting that India’s spend was greater than half in that yr.
Termed as Article Processing Prices(APCs), this price ensures the monetary viability of open entry (OA) scholarly journals.A analysis paper by Raj Kishor Kampa from the Division of Library and Data Science, Berhampur College; Manoj Kumar Sa from the Indian Maritime College, Kolkata and Mallikarjun Dora from the Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Administration, Ahmedabad, discovered that Indian researchers printed 26,127 gold OA articles throughout all topics in WoS (Internet of Science)-indexed journals in 2020.
Researchers within the discipline of well being and medical sciences paid the very best APC, amounting to $7 million, adopted by life and earth sciences ($6.9 million), multidisciplinary ($4.9 million), and chemistry and supplies science ($4.8 million). In all, 81% of APCs went to industrial publishers reminiscent of MDPI, Springer–Nature, Elsevier and Frontier Media. MDPI was the highest writer the place Indian researchers printed their articles. It printed round 2,360 articles in its 143 flagship journals. The overall APC of those 2,360 articles was about half-a-million US {dollars}.
Based on an evaluation of APCs throughout fields, it was discovered that science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) journals had the next APC than these in social science and humanities. Notably, excessive APC is present in topics like biology, chemistry and drugs.
“The first difficulty for Indian researchers is that there isn’t a devoted system for funding OA publications and no nationwide OA mandate like in lots of different nations,” the authors mentioned of their research printed within the latest difficulty of Present Science. They urged the formulation of national-level OA insurance policies since OA is “inevitable for fairness and entry to scholarly communications”.
Non-public publishers cost a subscription price or place articles behind a paywall, which makes analysis work inaccessible to many. Nevertheless, OA literature is essentially freely accessible on-line, for anybody to learn, obtain, copy, distribute, print and seek for articles, amongst different issues.
The suggestion was made after inspecting the rise of the OA methodology adopted by Indian researchers.
Image this: In 2011, there have been 14,850 OA publications, with 5,864 being gold OA. By 2020, the whole variety of OA publications had elevated to 50,662, with 30,604 being gold OA and 20,058 different OA publications (see field). Additionally, the variety of journals levying APCs has grown persistently: it was 1,825 in 2011 and 5,661 in 2022. The authors felt that with the rising variety of OA publications from India, a central and state-level single-window choice for funding in OA journals would assist researchers.
All About OA
What’s Open Entry
• Open entry (OA) retains analysis work open to all
• Gold OA removes all restrictions and permission limitations
• Inexperienced OA locations a model of analysis work in a repository chosen by the writer with sure phrases and situations to entry the article
The APC mannequin
• The Article Processing Prices (APC) has modified the underlying methods of the journal enterprise mannequin, shifting from demand-side to supply-side economics
• As an alternative of charging readers and librarians for subscription or license of scholarly work, the OA mannequin helps the manufacturing price of an article by the creator paying the APC
• APC per doc various from journal to journal with the minimal APC being $8 for chemistry and supplies sciences and the utmost $6,000 for well being and medical sciences journals
• Within the space of enterprise, economics and administration, the very best APC was between $1,001 and $1,500