Open access in Myanmar

University of Mandalay and University of Yangon set up their own open access institutional repositories in 2015 and Yadanabon University, Yangon University of Economics and Yezin Agricultural University in 2017. In 2020 they became part of MERAL, which has involved 19 Myanmar universities to date. MERAL will be the first ASEAN national portal. [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] You can find out more about MERAL in this video (Myanmar and English languages).

In addition to initiatives like MERAL, which encourages the sharing of research on a CC BY 4.0 international licence, there are a number of Myanmar university researchers already publishing their work in journals on open licences. Some of examples of papers from Myanmar authors are available in the additional resources section.

If you are a librarian, you may also want to explore whether your institution could join the Myanmar Academic Libraries Consortium (MALC), which enables affordable access to research.