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In 2017, the Open Access India had submitted a policy draft (National Open Access Policy of India (Draft) Ver. 3) to the Government (click here) and again in 2018, Delhi Declaration on Open Access was pronounced (click here). These are the efforts made by the community of practices to make aware all the stakeholders of the scholarly ecosystem on how to ‘OpenUp’ the access to the public funded research. However there needs much larger efforts and push for ‘Open Access’ as still we see that publications in ‘High Impact Factor’ journals which are mainly for profit commercial journals decide our career growth.
First, I would say that the false prestige of publication in high impact factor for profit journals should be taken away.
Secondly, the DBT/DST policy should be made as Govt. of India policy and it should be applied to all the research and academic institutes funded by any ministry not only DBT/DST.
Third, there should be change in the thinking and assessment of the research outputs and the assessment should measure the impact of the science/publication by various alternate means.
