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The STI Policy Proposes a Transformative Open Access Approach for India
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Anubha Sinha
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Apr 28, 2021
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Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha explains what the draft national Science, Technology and Innovation policy means for open access to scientific literature for Indians. This article was first published in The Wire Science on January 21, 2021.
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Research Publishing: Is ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ Pragmatic Reform for India?
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Anubha Sinha
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Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Apr 28, 2021 05:09 PM
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Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha examines the feasibility of the proposed 'One Nation, One Subscription' approach in the draft national Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (2020) on access to scientific literature. This article was first published in The Wire Science on October 23, 2020.
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India’s top science institution is trying hard to fix its “manel” problem
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Admin
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Aug 19, 2019
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Openness,
Open Access
B Chagun Basha is a science, technology and innovation policy fellow at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Centre for Policy Research established by the department of science & technology (DST-CPR).
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Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?
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Anubha Sinha
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May 29, 2019
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last modified
Jun 05, 2019 01:19 PM
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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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The city of Bhubaneswar is going Open
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Sailesh Patnaik
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Mar 07, 2019
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Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Bhubaneswar supporting the concept of Openness movement has joined as one of the ambassadors of the movement in the world by giving citizens the right to access the content online produced by the government and make use of the work.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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Sailesh Patnaik
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Dec 19, 2018
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Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM
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Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Open License,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Data,
Wikipedia,
Open Content,
Odia Wikipedia,
Open Access,
Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)
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Admin
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Nov 22, 2018
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Dec 05, 2018 04:19 PM
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Openness,
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) organised a short course on 'ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES' during November 13-22, 2018 in Bangalore. Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture to the participants.
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Panel Discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge
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Oct 26, 2018
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Feb 22, 2019 03:32 PM
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Openness,
Open Access
Pranesh Prakash was a panelist and moderator in a panel discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge on October 23, 2018 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The event was hosted by DST Centre for Policy Research (IISc), Bangalore.
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Sting job by Hyderabad scientist exposes fake journals
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Admin
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Oct 17, 2018
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Openness,
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Scientists have at last found a cure for Schlodomoniasis -- a deadly brain infection caused by the "inter-galactic parasite Klaousmodium cruzi" -- they claim to have identified for the first time.
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Delhi Declaration on Open Access
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Feb 26, 2018
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Openness,
Open Access
Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi.
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