Research Data Management in Open Access Journals by Developed Countries A Comparative Study between United States of America and United Kingdom

The present study measures quantitatively the current position and growth of Open Access archives, at the first stage it gives a quantitative overview of Open Access archives established and published from different developing and developed countries. Further it focuses on a comparative study between United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK) the two developed nations. The study is exclusively based on the data collected from the Scopus database an Elsevier's abstract and citation database upto July 2017. With about 5927 (26%) of total number of active journals indexed by Scopus, USA has built significant influences headed for the progress of Open Access Scholarly publishing.