THE CASE OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND AUTHORS’ PERCEPTION IN INDIA

Abstract:  Open access publishing is the best option to tackle the price hike of journals in the libraries. This paper investigates the attitude of Indian authors towards open access publishing. 64.84 percent of authors have experience in open access publishing. Majority of them use e-mail as medium to send their ‘manuscripts’ to publishers. The perception of larger readership than subscription based journals and impact factor are the main factors that affect the authors’ decision to choose open access journals in India. Majority of the population (82.81%) are willing to publish in open access publications in future. It is also clear that more than half of the population (51.95%) believe ‘more likely’ to publish in open access journals in future.The institutions and funding agencies should insist and encourage authors to publish their research in OA journals.