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Introduction
Open-access mandates have almost doubled globally that has
elapsed since Harvard’s mandate in May 2008’, Steven Harnard,
University of Southhampton, U.K. (Nature, 2009).
New trend the first International Open Access Week, 2009 at The
National Library of Sweden called Open Access, ‘promote maximum
accessibility and visibility of works produced by researchers, teachers and
students’.
Open Access Forum 2011: UNESCO
UNESCO Open Access strategy approved by the UNESCO Executive
Board 187th & 36th session of the General Conference. The invited experts from
all over the world discussed how to create a network collaborative platform to
promote Open Access to scientific information and research
India: An” announcement made by CSIR, urging the
establishment of institutional repositories in each of its more than
laboratories & conversion of all their journals to open access.” (Chan, et
al, 2009).
The above demonstrates a current worldwide interest in and
willingness to embrace open access.