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The case of significant variations in gold–green and black open access: evidence from Indian research output

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  • Vivek Kumar Singh

    (Banaras Hindu University)

  • Rajesh Piryani

    (South Asian University)

  • Satya Swarup Srichandan

    (Banaras Hindu University)

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Open Access has emerged as an important movement worldwide during the last decade. There are several initiatives now that persuade researchers to publish in open access journals and to archive their pre- or post-print versions of papers in repositories. Institutions and funding agencies are also promoting ways to make research outputs available as open access. This paper looks at open access levels and patterns in research output from India by computationally analyzing research publication data obtained from Web of Science for India for the last 5 years (2014–2018). The corresponding data from other connected platforms—Unpaywall and Sci-Hub—are also obtained and analyzed. The results obtained show that about 24% of research output from India, during last 5 years, is available in legal forms of open access as compared to world average of about 30%. More articles are available in gold open access as compared to green and bronze. On the contrary, more than 90% of the research output from India is available for free download in Sci-Hub. We also found disciplinary differentiation in open access, but surprisingly these patterns are different for gold–green and black open access forms. Sci-Hub appears to be complementing the legal gold–green open access for less covered disciplines in them. The central institutional repositories in India are found to have low volume of research papers deposited.

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  • Vivek Kumar Singh & Rajesh Piryani & Satya Swarup Srichandan, 2020. "The case of significant variations in gold–green and black open access: evidence from Indian research output," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(1), pages 515-531, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:124:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s11192-020-03472-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03472-y
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