Open Access Initiatives in Asia
- The Initiative for Fair Open Access Publishing in South Asian Studies
This site shares the 2020 Manifesto for Fair Open Access Publishing in South Asian Studies - Asia OAAsia OA is a special forum hosted by COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), established in 2016, in which members of the Asian open access community can share information, meet each other, and build relationships.
China
- National Social Science Database 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库A government-sponsored open access journal database with 1,000+ important Chinese journals.
- Collection of China's War of Resistance Against Japan 抗战文献数据平台Including full texts of over 10 million pages of books, journals, newspapers, images, etc. published prior to 1949.
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese NewspapersFull texts of over 290 newspapers published in over 20 cities in China between late Qing and PRC era.
Japan
- SPARC Japan
The International Scholarly Communication Initiative (SPARC Japan) is a project of the National Institute of Informatics to strengthen the electronic journals of the scholarly publications of Japan’s academic societies. Its goal is to keep in the hands of Japanese researchers the outstanding research results that they currently publish abroad and to further promote international dissemination of research results. - National Diet Library Digital Collections 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクションAC to books, periodicals, official gazettes, doctoral dissertations, historical recordings, and audio materials.
- Aozora Bunko 青空文庫OA to out-of-copyright Japanese literary works.
- J-StageJ-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). J-STAGE promotes "open access" of over 90% of articles on their platform.
Korea
- RISS InternationalOnline platform that offers approximately 1.6 million open access journal articles and 0.26 million research reports published by Korean central government funded research institutions.
Articles
- Open Access in China: Interview with Xiaolin Zhang of the National Science LibraryInterview published on the International Science Council's blog to Xiaolin Zhang, former Director of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) National Science Library. The interview focus on the issue of open access and open science in China – and the implications of the Europe-led ‘Plan S’ initiative.
- Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future PerspectivesFrom abstract: In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA.... However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges.