Open Access
After 15 Years, Is Free Access to Law Here to Stay?
- October 08, 2009
CIS, in collaboration with partners LexUM and SAFLII, is undertaking a Global Free Access to Law Study. Being the first of its kind within the Free Access to Law Movement, this comparative study will examine what free access to law initiatives do, evaluate their core benefits and identify factors determining of their sustainability. In the end, the free access to law study will provide future initiatives and existing LII networks with proven and adoptable best practices which will support the continued growth of the legal information commons.
Read more →Letter on South Africa's IPRs from Publicly Financed R&D Regulations
- June 02, 2009
Being interested in legislations in developing nations styled after the United States' Bayh-Dole Act, CIS responded to the call issued by the South African Department of Science and Technology for comments to the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Regulations.
Read more →International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009: A Report
- April 16, 2009
Open Access activist Madhan Muthu recently attended the International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, held in Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009, in company with CIS Distinguished Fellow Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam. In this entry, as a guest blogger for CIS, he files a report on the proceedings at the workshop.
Read more →Journals, Open Access, Copyright, Repositories
- April 07, 2009
Prof N. Mukunda, Editor of Publications, The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, discusses open access in his keynote address at the 26 March 2009 one-day conference on 'Scholarly Communications in the Age of the Commons'.
Read more →The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
- March 10, 2009
Film-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
Read more →Open Access Day celebrated in India
- October 21, 2008
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance co-organised joint celebrations of Open Access Day in Jamia Millia Islamia campus on the 14th of October 2008. Around 50 people attended the event from different departments in Jamia there were also some participants from the Indian Linux Users Group. CIS also published an Open Access flyer on this day featuring quotations from Sam Pitroda, MS Swaminathan, Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Frederick Noronha, Barbara Kirsop and Samir Brahmachari.
Read more →A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
- September 23, 2008
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.
Read more →Why Do We Need Open Access to Science?: A Developing Country Perspective
- September 19, 2008
Prof. Arunachalam's paper presented at the A2k3 conference in Geneva.
Read more →Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India — A Status Report
- July 29, 2011
This report was prepared by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madan Muthu on 9 April 2011.
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