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1、OpenAccessResearchOutputoftheUniversityofKashmirAli,Shah&MirzaOpenAccessResearchOutputoftheUniversityofKashmirAsmatAliTariqAhmadShahIramZehraMirzaAbstractPurpose:OpenAccesshascomeupwithapromisingfutureofmakingthescholarlycontentfreeofcostavailabletoeveryone.Ithaswidenedtheinf
2、ormationexchangemarketandisbecomingaworldwideefforttoprovidefreeonlineaccesstoscientificandscholarlyresearchliteratureindiverseformatsincludingopenaccessjournals.ThepresentstudyattemptstoprovideanoverviewofopenaccesspublishingintheUniversityofKashmir.Design/Methodology/Approach:The
3、studyisbasedonthedataextractedfromSCOPUS,leadingScience,TechnologyandMedicine(STM)citationdatabaseofworldleadingpublisher,Elsevier.Findings:ThestudyrevealsthatOApublishingisgainingpopularityinthewholeuniversitywithsubstantialamountofresearchpublicationalreadyavailablethroughOAjourn
4、als.Keywords:OpenAccess(OA);OpenAccessPublishing;UniversityofKashmirPaperType:SurveyIntroductionssociationofResearchLibraries(ARL)refersopenaccesstoanydisseminationmodelscreatedwithnoexpectationofdirectAmonetaryreturnandwhichmakesworksavailableonlineatnocosttothereaders(ARL,2008).I
5、nIndia,pooraccesstointernationaljournalsandthelowvisibilityofpapersaremainproblemsfacedbyresearchers.OAisviewedasasolutiontotheseproblems.OAsignifiesthedemocratizationofknowledgeandsupportssociallyresponsiblewaytodistributeknowledge.OAmakesthesameknowledgeandinformationavailabletos
6、cholarsinwealthy,firstworldnations,indevelopingex-communist,secondworldnations,andinunder-developedthirdworldnations(Ylotis,2005).So,openaccesshasprovedablessingtothescholarsinoneortheotherway.Whether,thescholarisanauthorortheuserofscholarlycontent,ithasdemocratizedtheminarealsense
7、.OAtoscholarlyarticlescanbeachievedthroughtwomainways:bybeingpublishedinanopenaccessjournal,orbybeingdepositedinanopenaccessrepository(OAR)andopenaccessarchives(OAA)respectively(Fernandez,2006;Chan&Costa,2005).Librarian,NawaKadalDegreeCollege.Srinagar.JammuandKashmir.India.email:a
8、smatali999@gmail.comRese