With the advancement of technology, the world witnessed the rapid growth of research and development activities. Research and development activities ensued in a huge literature outcome. The invention of the internet and World Wide Web reduced distances among scientific institutions around the world. Research, education, and policymaking institutions started sharing scholarly and literary outcomes around the world. Great initiatives like Budapest Open Access Initiativ...

The book contains ten chapters based on intensive research done on the timeline of public domain and open access initiatives around the world. The first chapter propounds an explanation of public domain, open access, evaluation of open access resources, and explanation of relevant terms. Public digital assets or public domain is a term basically used and related to copyright laws. Though in the second chapter, copyright laws under the regime of open access around the w...