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Open access to government data on the cards
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 26, 2012 — filed under: , , ,
The way has been cleared for public access to the data collected by Union government ministries and departments, with official approval being accorded to the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP). T Ramachandran's article was published in the Hindu on March 25, 2012. Pranesh Prakash is quoted in it.
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Blog Entry Open Access to International Agricultural Research
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2010 — last modified Aug 25, 2011 08:13 AM — filed under: ,
Open access advocates have urged the top management of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to give open access to its research publications. A report by Subbiah Arunachalam on 3 June, 2010 was also circulated to all the signatories of the letter.
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Blog Entry Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report: Call for Comments
by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madhan Muthu — published Jul 27, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes comments on the first draft of "Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report". This report, on open access to scholarly literature, with a special focus on scientific literature, has been written by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madhan Muthu. The report surveys the field of scholarly and scientific publication in India and provides a detailed history of the open access movement in India.
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Blog Entry Open Access to Science and Scholarship - Why and What Should We Do?
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 10, 2010 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:13 AM — filed under: ,
The National Institute of Advanced Studies held the eighth NIAS-DST training programme on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science, Technology and Society” from 26 July to 7 August, 2010. The theme of the project was ‘Knowledge Management’. Dr. MG Narasimhan and Dr. Sharada Srinivasan were the coordinators for the event. Professor Subbiah Arunachalam made a presentation on Open Access to Science and Scholarship.
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Open Access to Science Publications--Policy Perspective, Opportunities and Challenges
by Sanchia de Souza — published Mar 19, 2009 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:39 AM — filed under:
One-day conference on Open Access
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Blog Entry Open Access Week begins in Bangalore
by Tom Dane — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Aug 03, 2012 11:04 PM — filed under: ,
On Monday 24 October, the National Aerospace Laboratories in Bangalore held an event to mark the beginning of Open Access Week 2011
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Blog Entry Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the Globe
by Subbiah Arunachalam — published Sep 26, 2013 — filed under: , ,
Researchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.
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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 08:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
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Blog Entry Open Data and Land Ownership
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published May 22, 2019 — last modified May 22, 2019 11:32 AM — filed under: , ,
In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership field highlight the political nature of data, and illustrate the importance of politically aware interventions when creating open data standards, infrastructure, and ecosystems. State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini, is published by African Minds and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Blog Entry Open Data and Land Ownership - Environment Scan
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Feb 12, 2018 — last modified Feb 12, 2018 10:37 AM — filed under: , , ,
The State of Open Data is an ambitious research project reflecting on 10 years of action on open data and providing a critical review of the current state of the open data movement across a range of issues and thematic areas. This environment scan represents the first step in gathering information to support a review of the state of open data with regard to land ownership, and in refining the focus of a chapter. The lead author for this chapter is Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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