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Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature: Indian Perspective

Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature: Indian Perspective

G. Prince
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522534570|ISBN10: 1522534571|EISBN13: 9781522534587
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch002
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Prince, G. "Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature: Indian Perspective." Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information, edited by J. John Jeyasekar and P. Saravanan, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 16-35. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch002

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Prince, G. (2018). Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature: Indian Perspective. In J. Jeyasekar & P. Saravanan (Eds.), Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information (pp. 16-35). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch002

Chicago

Prince, G. "Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature: Indian Perspective." In Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information, edited by J. John Jeyasekar and P. Saravanan, 16-35. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter is intended to present briefly the open educational resources initiatives in India especially related to growth of scientific literature. Scholarly communication can be defined as the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make it possible as an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet and web 2.0 tools. Thus, the scholarly communications are available in the public domain in the open access platform. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels in electronic media of open access. Also presented is an overview of all available open source resources in Indian context.

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