Open Access
Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Jun 05, 2019 01:19 PMTimely 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.
The city of Bhubaneswar is going Open
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Mar 07, 2019 11:41 AMBhubaneswar 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.
CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AMOn 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.
Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)
— by Admin — last modified Dec 05, 2018 04:19 PMThe 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.
Panel Discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge
— by Admin — last modified Feb 22, 2019 03:32 PMPranesh 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.
Sting job by Hyderabad scientist exposes fake journals
— by Admin — last modified Oct 17, 2018 02:06 AMScientists 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.
Delhi Declaration on Open Access
— by Admin — last modified Feb 26, 2018 02:53 PMOpen 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.
Helping Institutions Embrace Open Access
— by Admin — last modified Nov 27, 2017 03:11 PMWorld over, a large number of universities and institutions are making way for open access repositories. Why have Indian researchers shied away from it?
Indo - French Perspectives on Digital Studies
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 29, 2017 05:17 AMAnubha Sinha was a speaker at the Indo-French workshop on Open Access at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi on March 15, 2017. The event was organized by the Digital Studies Group.
Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
— by Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam — last modified Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PMWe 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.
