« Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.
The Indian government is pushing a bold proposal that would make scholarly literature accessible for free to everyone in the country. The government wants to negotiate with the world’s biggest scientific publishers to set…
« Professor Ramesh C. Gaur is one of the globally renowned library and information professionals with nearly three decades of experience. Having served in prestigious organisations such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, CRRI-CSIR,
« On the occasion of International Open Access Week 2019, lecture and interactive session with Professor Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
Event jointly organized by the Centre for Society and Policy, DST-Centre for Policy Research and JRD Tata Memorial Library at Indian Institute of Science…
« The government’s « directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India », according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India. (…) at a talk he delivered in Bengaluru on October 25, VijayRaghavan said that India will not be enrolling with this…
» Open Access India and the Center for Open Science have collaborated to launch IndiaRxiv, India’s first preprint service. IndiaRxiv began as a vision for a single open platform that could provide free access to all publicly-funded research…
« This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India. The declaration is aimed at scientific communities, scholarly societies, publishers, funders, universities and research institutions to promote openness in science and research communications. (…) »
« Access to information plays a critical role in supporting development. Open access to scientific information is one solution. Up to now, the open access movement has been most successful in the Western hemisphere. The demand for open access is great in the developing world as it can contribute to solving…
« (…) We estimate that India is potentially spending about US$2.4 million annually on APCs and suggest that it would be prudent for Indian authors to make their work freely available through interoperable repositories, a trend that is growing significantly in Latin America and China, especially when research is…
« Une université qui photocopie des livres à des fins pédagogiques et à destination des élèves ne se place pas en situation d’infraction au copyright, a jugé la Haute Cour de Delhi dans un verdict rendu vendredi sur une affaire qui occupe tribunaux et avocats depuis 4 ans.…
« The main purpose of the study is to examine the role of Open Access Digital Repositories on Information Seeking Behavior among Research Scholars. The study adopted a questionnaire-based survey research design, 220 questionnaires were distributed among research scholars at Mangalore University, out of which 200 filled questionnaires were…
