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1、OpenAccessResearchOutputoftheUniversityofKashmirAli,Shah&MirzaOpenAccessResearchOutputoftheUniversityofKashmirAsmatAliTariqAhmadShahIramZehraMirzaAbstractPurpose:OpenAccesshascomeupwithapromisingfutureofmakingthescholarlycontentfreeofcostavailabletoeveryone.Ithaswidenedtheinformatio
2、nexchangemarketandisbecomingaworldwideefforttoprovidefreeonlineaccesstoscientificandscholarlyresearchliteratureindiverseformatsincludingopenaccessjournals.ThepresentstudyattemptstoprovideanoverviewofopenaccesspublishingintheUniversityofKashmir.Design/Methodology/Approach:Thestudyisbasedon
3、thedataextractedfromSCOPUS,leadingScience,TechnologyandMedicine(STM)citationdatabaseofworldleadingpublisher,Elsevier.Findings:ThestudyrevealsthatOApublishingisgainingpopularityinthewholeuniversitywithsubstantialamountofresearchpublicationalreadyavailablethroughOAjournals.Keywords:OpenAcce
4、ss(OA);OpenAccessPublishing;UniversityofKashmirPaperType:SurveyIntroductionssociationofResearchLibraries(ARL)refersopenaccesstoanydisseminationmodelscreatedwithnoexpectationofdirectAmonetaryreturnandwhichmakesworksavailableonlineatnocosttothereaders(ARL,2008).InIndia,pooraccesstointernati
5、onaljournalsandthelowvisibilityofpapersaremainproblemsfacedbyresearchers.OAisviewedasasolutiontotheseproblems.OAsignifiesthedemocratizationofknowledgeandsupportssociallyresponsiblewaytodistributeknowledge.OAmakesthesameknowledgeandinformationavailabletoscholarsinwealthy,firstworldnations,
6、indevelopingex-communist,secondworldnations,andinunder-developedthirdworldnations(Ylotis,2005).So,openaccesshasprovedablessingtothescholarsinoneortheotherway.Whether,thescholarisanauthorortheuserofscholarlycontent,ithasdemocratizedtheminarealsense.OAtoscholarlyarticlescanbeachievedthrough
7、twomainways:bybeingpublishedinanopenaccessjournal,orbybeingdepositedinanopenaccessrepository(OAR)andopenaccessarchives(OAA)respectively(Fernandez,2006;Chan&Costa,2005).Librarian,NawaKadalDegreeCollege.Srinagar.JammuandKashmir.India.email:asmatali999@gmail.comRese