Open Access to Biomedical Research in India: Contributions Made by Indian Scientists for Global

Access

Anup Kumar DasCentre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU, India

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Presented inKCL-JNU Workshop On Biomedical Innovation and the Public

13-14 March 2014, JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi

Global Collaborations and Open Access to Biomedical Research

Global Collaborations and Open Access to Biomedical Research

• Based on Scopus Data, between 2004 and 2013, • Published in OA periodicals – PLOS, BioMed Central

(BMC), and eLife Journals• Retrieved data - 3,496 research papers, where at least

one Indian researcher as contributing author• All papers were published with OA licenses.

Top Collaborating Countries

Malaysia

South Korea

Mexico

Brazil

Singapore

Belgium

Spain

Netherlands

Japan

South Africa

Sweden

Italy

China

Switzerland

Canada

France

Australia

Germany

United Kingdom

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Top Contributing Institutions

NCCS, Pune

BHU, Varanasi

JNCASR, Bangalore

CDRI, Lucknow

ICGEB, Delhi

CMC, Vellore

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Bose Ins, Kolkata

MBU, IISc, Bangalore

NII, Delhi

UoH, Hyderabad

IICB, Kolkata

DU, Delhi

IMTECH, Chandigarh

IGIB, Delhi

JNU, Delhi

NCBS, Bangalore

CCMB, Hyderabad

IISc, Bangalore

AIIMS, Delhi

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Top Publishing Journals

Indian Open Access Publishing Channels

• http://MedIND.nic.in • Produced under ICMR funded project - "National Databases of Indian Medical

Journals".• Purpose is to provide free access to full text of articles published in select Indian

biomedical journals indexed in IndMED or PubMed databases. • Presently covers 86 medical journals, published by learned societies and

medical research centres. • Collaboration between National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Indian Council of

Medical Research (ICMR)

• http://IndMED.nic.in• Produced under ICMR funded project - "National Databases of Indian Medical

Journals".• Purpose is to index selected peer reviewed medical journals published from

India.• Integrated to PubMed MEDLARS database. • Presently covers about 100 medical journals, published by learned societies and

medical research centres. • Collaboration between NIC and ICMR for the Indian Medlars Centre.

• http://OpenMED.nic.in • A Green OA Channel and Disciplinary Repository, maintained by the NIC. • A Self-Archiving facility to biomedical researchers and practitioners in India • Purpose is to global dissemination of peer reviewed medical literature

published from India and South Asia.

Medknow Publications

• Medknow Publications [Medknow.com], launched in 1999 in India, is an open access publisher, now publishing about 328 STM journals, in collaboration with about 293 learned societies/ associations.

• Majority of journals belong to biomedical subject areas.• Majority of journals belong to Indian societies/ associations, including

journals of ICMR, . • They also provide Gold OA publishing solutions to societies in Asian

and African countries, mostly from the developing nations. • Only few journals receive Article Processing Charges (APC) to get

published after usual peer-reviewing and acceptance, other journals receive no APC.

• Some journals are indexed in Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science. • Wolters Kluwer Health has acquired MedKnow in 2011.

Indian Green Open Access ChannelsSource: Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) – 8 out of 69, covering Health and Medicine subject areas. • OpenMED@NIC by Bibliographic Informatics Division, National

Informatics Centre (NIC), India• Digital Knowledge Repository of Central Drug Research Institute

(DKR@CDRI) • Eprints @MDRF by Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India• EPrints@NIRT by National Institute for Tuberculosis Research, India• Eprints@CMFRI (CMFRI Digital Repository) by Central Marine Fisheries

Research Institute (CMFRI), ICAR, India• Indian Academy of Sciences: Publications of Fellows by Indian Academy

of Sciences, India• IR@NPL by CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India• Knowledge Repository Open Network (KNoor) by Department of Library

& Information Science, University of Kashmir, India

Indian Open Data RepositoriesSource: DATABIB (A searchable directory of research data repositories) – 8 out of 25, covering Health and Medical Sciences subject areas. • Indian Genetic Disease Database @ Indian Institute of Chemical Biology• Oral Cancer Gene Database @ Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research

and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre• ACEpepDB: Peptide Database @ Central Food Technological Research

Institute, India• HIstome: The Histone Infobase @ Advanced Centre for Treatment,

Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre• Human Proteinpedia @ Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore• Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI) @ ICMR National Institute of Medical

Statistics (NIMS)• TBNet India: A National Portal for Tuberculosis Initiative @ Institute of

Bioinformatics, Bangalore• India Sanitation Portal @ The Arghyam Foundation

Some Observations• Amount of peer-reviewed open access literature produced from

India is significant. • Global accessibility, visibility and collaborative research will be

increased if Indian biomedical research institutions – Establish OA Institutional Repositories,– Establish Open Data Repositories,– Contents Produced with Creative Common (CC) Licenses

• Needs to strengthen – Linkages amongst Open Innovation, Open Access and Open

Science Data – Knowledge Mapping of Collaborative Biomedical Research in India– Knowledge Networking amongst Biomedical Research Institutions – Open Access Advocacy, Capacity Building and Awareness Raising.

Thank you for your attention.

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