Open Access and Open J-Gate

The paper highlights Open Access Initiative (OAI), its formal origin at the Budapest meeting was organised by the Open Society Institute, and its aims to make published scholarly content freely available on the Web with an intent that the Web would make it easy to access. Parellel to OAI, it address the issue of bibliographic aggregation. It also discusses the J-Gate and Open J-Gate open access databases and their salient features.