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Why Do We Need Open Access to Science?: A Developing Country Perspective: by admin — last modified Oct 11, 2008 09:45 AM — filed under: Open Access
Prof. Arunachalam's paper presented at the A2k3 conference in Geneva.
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Will open access replace costly commercial publishing models?: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 23, 2012 — filed under: Openness, Open Access
Cost of research journals going up while funds available are coming down, writes Vasudha Venugopal in an article published in the Hindu on February 19, 2012.
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Open Access
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
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Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons: by Sanchia de Souza — published Mar 10, 2009 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:37 AM — filed under: Openness
One-day conference on Open Access
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Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Zakir Thomas: by Job Michael Mathew — published Dec 12, 2015 — last modified Jan 30, 2016 10:54 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
With only a few more days to go for the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015 (“Congress”), we will be putting out a number of blog posts as a precursor of things to come. In this first series, Job Michael Mathew approaches some of our keynote speakers for their thoughts on their work areas and contemporary developments in their fields.
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Strategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final Report: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 21, 2013 — last modified Oct 11, 2015 04:39 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access Dialogues, Open Access
A series of discussions - on the Chat Literacy forum of ELDIS and on Twitter - was organised during November 2012 to March 2013 to identify the global challenges in 'Navigating the Complexities of Open Access'. The discussions were facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), through support from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. On behalf of CIS, Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-coordinated and contributed to these discussions.
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A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 23, 2008 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Open Access
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.
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions: by Soni Wadhwa — published Feb 12, 2024 — last modified Feb 13, 2024 02:57 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, A2K Research, Openness
This report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians and advocates of the Open. The rough outline of the Open initiatives is accompanied by reflections on the nature of the Open here and the need to envision it differently from what it currently is.
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: Openness
In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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CIS' Comments on the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science Open Access Policy: by Anubha Sinha — published Aug 22, 2014 — last modified Aug 22, 2014 03:46 PM — filed under: Openness
In July 2014, the Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India released a draft Open Access Policy. CIS participated in discussions along with experts brought on board by the Drafting Committee to develop and review the open access policy. As a follow-up, CIS prepared comments to the draft Policy. This post makes available CIS' comments to the draft Policy.
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