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Research papers will be available in public domain
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 17, 2012
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
IIT-Madras intends to make circle of knowledge complete, writes Vasudha Venugopal in this article published in the Hindu on 15 February 2012. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam is quoted in the article.
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Indian Govt looks to provide free access to publicly-funded research works
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 28, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Sunil Abraham gave his inputs to the blog entry published in Medianama on July 23, 2014.
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
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by
Siddharth Chadha
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published
Mar 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
Digital Access,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
art and intervention,
Piracy,
Open Access,
innovation,
digital artists
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
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Blogs
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Letter on South Africa's IPRs from Publicly Financed R&D Regulations
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jun 02, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:42 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Bayh-Dole,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Open Access,
Open Innovation
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.
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Blogs
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Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
May 29, 2019
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last modified
Jun 05, 2019 01:19 PM
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filed under:
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Timely and affordable access to scientific research remains a problem in this digital day and age. Around three decades ago, the radical response that emerged was making public-funded scientific research “open access”, i.e. publishing it on the Web without any legal, technical or financial barriers to access and use such research. Several Indian public research institutions also adopted open access mandates and built self-archiving digital tools, however, the efforts haven’t yielded much. Most countries including India, continue to struggle with implementing open access. The latest international initiative (created in Europe) to remedy this problem is Plan S. Plan S is has been positioned as a strategy to implement immediate open access to scientific publications from 2021 – which India is considering adopting.
This article unpacks the disorderly growth of open access in India, and discusses the gap between the Plan's vision and current Indian scenario in some respects.
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Blogs
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Strategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final Report
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 21, 2013
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last modified
Oct 11, 2015 04:39 AM
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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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Openness
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Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Oct 12, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
In an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
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Openness
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
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by
Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam
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published
Oct 29, 2016
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last modified
Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Science,
Open Content,
Open Access
We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
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Openness
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by
Subbiah Arunachalam
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published
May 09, 2012
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
It has been a slow but steady move to make scholarship freely available, writes Prof. Arunachalam in an article published by the Indian Express on May 8, 2012.
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Openness
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Second Draft of Open Access Policy of the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science released
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Oct 19, 2014
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last modified
Oct 30, 2014 12:33 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
The Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India drafted an Open Access Policy (“Policy”) in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. The second draft of the Policy released last week and is open for comments till 17th November, 2014.
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