A survey on Scholarly publishing Preferences in open access by the Indian Authors
Abstract
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The study aims atfinding author preferences in publishing on the Open Access (OA) platform bythe Indian scholarly community. 300 responses were obtained from five topranked Indian life science research institutions. Absolute respondents opinedthat their research work to reach maximum readers and 88.70% indicate OAarticles can be circulated without restrictions. 90.67% felt no increase ofplagiarism due to OA and no significant variation among institutions on aspectsof OA publishing except for reaching scholars (Chi-square=11.010 & P value=.026).Majority of respondents preferred high impact as a choice of publicationsignificantly also brand value favoured significantly. Least significance foundon preference on diamond OA with X2 of14.596; P=.006. Those who can’t afford topay APC were statistically different among institutions. A diverse opinion wasobserved between the institutions, for free and unrestricted access to thepublications for end-users (Chi-square=11.722 and a P value of .000) and authordisliking publishing in paid journals (Chi-square=12.116 and a P value of.017). Regarding the author reasons to publish in OAJ and attracting morecitations encourage authors to publish was on-par among the institutions. Astatistically significant difference observed among authors who quoted reasonsfor publication that free and freedom for end-users (X2=11.722; p=0.0001). Thestudy recommends libraries and LIS professionals to create awareness on OA, itspublishing policies, platforms, OA funding agencies and encourage by making budgetaryprovision for supporting APC.
Keywords: Author preference, APC, author charge, scholarly communication, OA Publishing, Open access journals, OA, Open Access