摘要：A free flow of ideas and information is important to the process of scientific inquiry and in turn to the ability to address economic, environmental and social development issues in Asian region. Scholarly publishing facilitates research findings of scholars to cross international boundaries to offer strong and positive connections between individual scholars, institutions and nations. Such exchanges contribute to the expansion of the global knowledge base to which the Asia is linked. This study focuses how to increase awareness of open access in Asia and provide more information to maintain publication standard for researchers. The study also explores the challenges and opportunities of scholarly publishing in Asia. The challenges involve technological, socio-political, economic and environmental issues. The modern era brings with it opportunities that may enhance Asias visibility of scholarly publishing. Findings of this study specify that the majority of researchers in public universities in Asia used open access more to access scholarly content. Most of these researchers would support open access publishing more if issues of recognition, quality and ownership were resolved. The study recommends that public universities and other research institutions in the country should consider establishing institutional repositories, with appropriate quality assurance measures, to improve the dissemination of research output emanating from these institutions.
