{"id":1913,"date":"2018-01-12T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2018-01-12T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T12:38:24","slug":"open-access-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/2018\/01\/12\/open-access-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by Vrushali Dandawate (@vrushalisainath), DOAJ Ambassador, India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOpen Access means free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.\u201d (BOAI, 2002)<\/p>\n

Open Access is playing an important role in developing countries to give equal opportunities for access to necessary E-resources. Open Access has rapidly gained popularity in Europe and the USA, but by comparison its growth in Asia has been very slow.<\/p>\n

The situation in Asia is explored in a report published by Asia OA<\/a>, a forum hosted by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). This report analysed the status of Open Access publishing in sixteen countries in Asia. The major finding was that all countries studied are already adopting Open Access policies, but that they lack the organised efforts and support to make Open Access successful in each country.<\/p>\n

As an ambassador of DOAJ in India, and living in the Asian continent, I have decided to do research on Open Access development in Asia. Just a simple Google search (country name + open access) gave me the following indication about the state of Open Access in each country.<\/p>\n

List of Asian countries* and whether or not they have an Open access policy, open access journals and open data<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Afghanistan – Yes
\nArmenia – Yes
\nAzerbaijan – Yes
\nBahrain – Yes
\nBangladesh – Yes
\nBhutan – Yes
\nBrunei – Yes
\nCambodia – Yes
\nChina – Yes
\nCyprus – Yes
\nGeorgia – Yes
\nIndia – Yes
\nIndonesia – Yes
\nIran – Yes
\nIraq – Yes
\nIsrael – Yes, less information found
\nJapan – Yes
\nJordan – Yes
\nKazakhstan – Yes
\nKuwait – Yes
\nKyrgyzstan – Yes
\nLaos – Yes, less information found
\nLebanon – Yes
\nMalaysia – Yes
\nMaldivesv Yes
\nMongolia – Yes
\nMyanmar (Burma) – Yes
\nNepal – Yes
\nNorth Korea – Information not found
\nOman – Yes
\nPakistan – Yes
\nPalestine – Yes
\nPhilippines – Information not found
\nQatar – Yes
\nRussia – Yes
\nSaudi Arabia – Yes
\nSingapore – Yes
\nSouth Korea – Yes
\nSri Lanka – Yes
\nSyria – Yes, less information found
\nTaiwan – Yes
\nTajikistan – Information not found
\nThailand – Yes
\nTimor-Leste – Information not found
\nTurkey – Yes
\nTurkmenistan – Less information found
\nUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) – Yes
\nUzbekistan – Yes
\nVietnam – Yes
\nYemen – Yes<\/p>\n

The development of Open Access in Asia will be explored as a research project. \u201cOpen Access Asia\u201d, born at OpenCon 2017<\/a>, is a community of Open Access advocates<\/a> in the region. The main objectives of the Open Access Asia project are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. To make an open platform for all OA Advocates in Asia.<\/li>\n
  2. To hold workshops\/conferences\/seminars in all Asian countries in rotation, helping effect culture change across institutions.<\/li>\n
  3. Network sharing for OA Advocates in all Asian countries through bulletins and write-ups.<\/li>\n
  4. A platform for advocating Open Access and sharing success stories of the OA movement in the world and in Asia.<\/li>\n
  5. To invite everyone who is involved and interested in the OA movement to discuss and raise issues related to Open Access in general and specific to Asia.<\/li>\n
  6. Collaborate with Open Access Network<\/a> and leverage with other such networks for information exchange.<\/li>\n
  7. That Open Access will influence policy makers, research workers, researchers, scholarly societies for their research and move institutions towards adopting open access policy across Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To encourage more involvement of people from Asian countries with the Open Asia Project, a social media platform has been created:<\/p>\n

    Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1166441533488173\/<\/a>
    \nTwitter:     @Open_Asia_Org<\/a><\/p>\n

    With this blog post I invite all interested people to join Open Access Asia and help to promote Open Access more collaboratively in the Asian region and worldwide.<\/p>\n

    *Country list taken from\u00a0https:\/\/www.countries-ofthe-world.com\/countries-of-asia.html<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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