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Telugu Wikipedia Meet-up @ CIS
- June 05, 2013
The Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a meet-up on June 2, 2013 in its office in Bangalore, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All are cordially invited.
Read more →CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Prajavani
- June 05, 2013
Prajavani published a report on the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations organised in Bangalore on the final day, May 23, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Kannada and IT.
Read more →Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their Findings
- June 04, 2013
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.
Read more →Comments on the Draft ICAR Open Access Policy
- May 28, 2013
The following comments were submitted to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research on May 23, 2013.
Read more →Use of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers
- May 31, 2013
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.
Read more →A lifetime of five years on the internet
- May 20, 2013
Centre for Internet and Society observes its fifth anniversary on Sunday.
Read more →Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians
- June 05, 2013
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team shared its annual work plan with the larger Wikipedia community. Over the last one month, Access to Knowledge team members were involved in receiving feedback from community members over mailing lists, private emails, Wikimedia Meta, IRC, and one-on-one conversations. In this post, we are sharing a brief summary of the feedback received.
Read more →Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment
- May 09, 2013
This blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.
Read more →Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for Applications
- May 09, 2013
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by July 1, 2013.
Read more →ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦
- June 11, 2013
This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.
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