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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VII)/160-167/21
AUTHOR: Irfan-ul-Haq Akhoon,
TITLE: DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN
ABSTRACT: Open access to scholarly information has been a hot topic for debate among scholarly community i.e. librarians, scholars, and publishers over the last few years. The movement of open access can be seen openly in the present day to day environment. Work published in Open Access mode might be seen, read & used by everyone who is interested, thus allowing academic research to have a greater impact on the world. Open Access journals are relatively new actors in the publishing market, and gaining reputation and visibility day by day in a very complex manner. Open access Journals exist at a promising platform all across the globe.
The study will be helpful for the researchers in exploring the amount open access titles in different subject field. Furthermore, it can act as an eye opener to the scholarly world to know about the real status of open access in India and Pakistan. As the present study measured the current position and development of Open Access Journals published from different developing and developed countries. Further a comparative study between India and Pakistan, the two developing nations had been carried out.
Open access journals show a promising growth across nations and in different fields. Developing nations are at very initial stage of publishing scholarly journals through open access. India is in a prominent situation with other developing nations in the publishing open access scholarly works.
KEYWORDS: Open Access Publishing; Open Access Journals; Open Access-Developing Nations; Open Access-India; Open Access-Pakistan; Open Access-Scopus; Scopus-India; Scopus-Pakistan