Theme and Sub- themes
Theme of the conference: "RECENT TRENDS IN OPEN ACCESS"
Sub- themes
Sub- themes
- Open Access to Scholarly Communication
- Open Access (OA) Movement
- Open Access Policy perspective, Economics, Opportunities and Challenges
- Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
- Open Access to Institutional and Digital Repositories/ Digital Libraries
- OA Initiatives, Open Access Publishing, OA Models
- Access tools and services to Open Access :DOAR, ROAR, SHERPA-ROMIO, SPARC
- Open Access Educational Resources
- Open Access and Rights of Creators and Stakeholders
- Role of libraries in promoting Open Access
- Research and Development Trends in Open Access
- Management of E-resources
- Impact of open access on research and scholarship
- Use and User studies of Open access Scholarly Communication/ Free and Open Source Software.
- Best practices for maintaining and disseminating OA scholarly communication
- Plagiarism, Copyright, IPR issues and Creative Commons, Digital Rights Management