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Blog Entry Odia Wikisource, its Potential
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:47 AM — filed under: , , , ,
I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.
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Blog Entry Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
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Blog Entry Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2014 — last modified Dec 07, 2014 03:35 AM — filed under: , ,
Odisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".
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Blog Entry Beyond the Language Tussle
by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Dec 10, 2014 — filed under: ,
It might be more productive to see the ongoing Sanskrit versus German controversy as a welcome opportunity to discuss the real and persistent problems of our education system, not all of which have to do with which languages children get to learn.
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Blog Entry Several Publications Now Available under Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 28, 2014 — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society has got the following publications under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license. These are from multiple authors.
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Blog Entry Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia
by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Nov 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 28, 2014 04:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikisource campus project at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 03, 2014 — last modified Aug 16, 2015 03:42 PM — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a closing ceremony, on December 3, to conclude the three months campus project for Odia Wikisource at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Dec 30, 2014 01:08 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
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Blog Entry ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 31, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
This is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within the books. I have covered the focus area of 3 free and open source projects: Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia in the column highlighting the need for more people to contribute.
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Blog Entry Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Intransigenc of STM Publishers
by Subbiah Arunachalam — published Jan 01, 2015 — last modified Feb 12, 2015 12:28 AM — filed under: ,
A few commercial publishers dominate provision of access to scientific and technical information sought after by researchers around the world. Increasing subscription prices of journals at rates higher than general inflation caused librarians to think of forming consortia, but publishers started selling online journals as bundles, and libraries ended up with many journals their researchers have very little use for. Scientists and librarians adopted open access, but publishers came up with hybrid journals and article processing charges to beat any adverse effect on their profits caused by the fast-spreading open access movement. We compare the steps taken by scientists and librarians in the West to reclaim ease of access to research findings with what is happening in India. We end with a few suggestions.
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