Roundtable on Asia Science and Social Science Research Councils-1

"Building on the ideas put forth by Prof Arunachalam, Sanjaya Mishra, CEMCA, spoke about different ways in which the open data model could be abused. One of the frequent issues that he discussed was the sub-standard and fake research that is put out through open access journals by vested interests. According to him, a way of circumventing the problem is  education of young researchers on the merits of open access....The last speaker Dr. Sujata Gamage, LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka spoke about the need to address the ‘demand’ aspect of open access system. She stressed on the fact that academic research is a small part of the picture and that there exists a lot of data out there that needed to be accessed by training people to analyse it...."