Open Access Indian Publications: An Empirical Study of DOAJ

There are two general strategies for achieving Open Access (OA) to scholarly communication, the gold road and green road. The largest authoritative OA database is Directory of Journals (DOAJ) indexing all standard journals meeting DOAJ criteria inclusion. purpose this paper investigate contribution Indian publications global movement. analysis present study was done based on a total dataset 289 research journal as imported from database. findings reveal that account only 2% coverage DOAJ. Among them, in field Medicine alone 79% approximately 73% published both print & electronic medium with PDF preferred file format, DOI permanent article identifier English language publication. Almost 89% provide full-text crawl permission, while 75% them download statistics. All covered under peer-reviewed out most (76%) double-blind peer-reviewed. CC BY-NC-SA license cover highest percentage (75%) 206 (71%) do not charge APC. In majority (89%), author doesn’t hold either copyright or publishing rights without restrictions publishers. It important note (~1%) satisfied requirements Seal.