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Blog Entry Unpacking Openness: From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque
by Maarten Zeinstra and Marlieke Kieboom published Aug 01, 2012 last modified Aug 01, 2012 09:16 AM — filed under:
Nishant Shah was in Netherlands recently and as part of his trip had given a public lecture to an audience at Kennisland. One of the respondents wrote a small write-up of the talk.
Located in Openness
File Updated Aadhaar Report
by Prasad Krishna published May 16, 2017
Located in Internet Governance / Files
Blog Entry US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge
by Anubha Sinha published Aug 11, 2016 — filed under: ,
In a major international development, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit to strike down the provisions on Digital Rights Management(DRM) in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In this post, I discuss DRMs, the EFF lawsuit, and then draw upon the differences between the US and Indian copyright regime on DRM protection.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
US pressure threatens to weaken data - localisation mandate in India's landmark data-protection bill
by Sandhya Sharma published Aug 22, 2019 — filed under:
Sources say the bill may have to concede vital ground to technology companies.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their Findings
by Madhan Muthu and Subbiah Arunachalam published May 28, 2013 last modified Jul 04, 2013 04:45 AM — filed under: , ,
Most of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all seven Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, 10 BioMed Central (BMC) ournals and Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports. Indian crystallographers have published more than 2,000 structure reports in Acta Crystallographica, second only to China in number of papers, but have a much better citations per paper average than USA, Britain, Germany and France, China and South Korea. India’s contribution to BMC and PLoS journals, on the other hand, is modest at best. We suggest that the better option for India is institutional self-archiving.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Use of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers
by Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam published May 27, 2013 last modified Jul 04, 2013 04:50 AM — filed under:
Indian researchers have published more than 43,400 papers in over 4,600 journals in 2009 as seen from Science Citation Index (SCI) – Expanded. Of these, over 6,900 (or one in six) papers are published in 445 open access (OA) journals. The proportion of papers published by Indian researchers in OA journals is considerably higher than the world average, which is estimated to be 8.5–10.0%. Although India publishes well over a thousand journals, including about 360 OA journals, SCI Expanded indexed in 2009 only 101 Indian S&T journals including 46 OA journals. It is likely that the percentage of Indian papers in OA journals as seen from SCI will be higher if more Indian journals are indexed in SCI Expanded.
Located in Openness / Blog
File Use of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers
by Prasad Krishna published Jun 04, 2013
Located in Openness / Blog
File Use of Open Access Journals for Publishing Findings
by Prasad Krishna published Jun 04, 2013
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Using technology to address issues
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 15, 2016 — filed under:
Can technology help the visually-disabled, who have no access to books and reading resources in their schools?
Located in Accessibility / News & Media
Blog Entry Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in India
by Subodh Kulkarni published Feb 10, 2024 — filed under: , , , ,
This report explores opportunities within the Wikimedia movement and projects to help revitalise small and underrepresented languages in India and provide recommendations to CIS’s Access to Knowledge team in furthering this effort. The report is mainly based on a roundtable conversation on Digital Access in Bhubaneswar with a diverse range of backgrounds and professions, including independent researchers, representatives from non-profit organizations, retired government officials, Wikimedia contributors (both Odia and Santali), ecological activists, directors of research institutes, consultants, and journalists. This was organized by the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in collaboration with Vasundhara, Bhubaneswar.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs