Workshop on Advocacy for Open Access: Central Open Access Repository in Nepal
Scholarly articles and book chapters published in the international journals and books are not easily accessible to the general researchers in Nepal due to high subscription costs even though some of those were written by Nepali authors. Research papers and presentations presented in seminars and conferences by Nepalese scholars do not get published and/or archived. A lot of research output is generated by or for use by development organisations, especially multilateral institutions and a few large government and non-government organisations. These reports are not widely disseminated when their nature and usefulness to other researchers and practitioners is very high. Researchers in developing countries like Nepal will be benefitted from Open Access. They can publish their work in an Open Access media or can archive it in Open Access digital repository. There was no system of central digital repository in Nepal to make research work accessible to the public. Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLIC) with support from EIFL established the Central Open Access Repository in Nepal in 2012. […]