Awareness, Acceptance and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing among Indian Research Community

  • Rangaswamy
  • Dr. Rajendra Babu H
Keywords: Open-Access, Awareness and Acceptance, Research Community, India, Influential-Factors

Abstract

India is one of the largest country in the world with plenty of higher educational institutions, universities, research centres and research organisations imparting higher education to the students and also research activities. The country is spending thousands of crores of rupees annually for research activities these funds generated from the tax payers’ money. So the tax payer funded research results should reach the public in order to get the maximum benefits of the tax payers’. The present study aims to understand the awareness, level of acceptance, and factors that influence the practice of open-access publishing (OAP) among Indian Research Community. The investigation employed the survey method for collected the data using web-based Google Forms questionnaire. The structure questionnaire were sent an emailed to the (18,463) targeted respondents. Finally we received 675 Indian researchers from various higher education and research organizations across India and this as considered study sample. Further applied suitable statistical analysis. The results of the study shows there were a total of 675 respondents participated by filling out the structured questionnaire prepared for the study. In that majorities of 72.15% were male, and 27.85% were female respondents. Regarding the educational qualifications of the respondents, a majority of 77.04% hold doctoral degrees. The most of the research community was either moderately aware or well aware of open-access concepts. The highest 612 (90.66%) of respondents agreeing that cost-free access is helpful. The 461 (68.29%) felt that open access journals are highly peer-reviewed, 514 (76.14%) opined open access articles can reach maximum readers without any barriers compared to closed access. Journal reputation, researcher popularity, impact factor, short turnaround times, and publication fees influences authors' decisions to publish in OAJ.

Author Biographies

Rangaswamy

Research Scholar, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka, INDIA

Dr. Rajendra Babu H

Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka, INDIA

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Published
2024-03-30
How to Cite
Rangaswamy, & Dr. Rajendra Babu H. (2024). Awareness, Acceptance and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing among Indian Research Community. Revista Electronica De Veterinaria, 25(1), 2481-2488. https://doi.org/10.69980/redvet.v25i1.1272
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