The study discusses the background of open access publications in India and throws lights on various government and organizational initiatives publishing open access journals in the country. Scopus have been referred to retrieve the research publications of India published in Open Access Journals. The study has found a miserable percentage of publications contributed from India. Out of 22,32,811 Indian publications indexed in Scopus only 2,90,152 (12.00%) publications are published in open access journals. As per the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), India has registered a total of 286 Open Access Journals to the DAOJ as of 31st March 2020. The contribution of India to open access journals in the world is only 1.97%. Further, the study has discussed on various government and private open access journals initiatives, leading funders promoting to OA journals, prominent authors contributing to it, and identify the major areas on which open access publications are growing. The study will be handy for the new researchers thinking for publishing their research in open access journals.
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