Open Access
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 Oct 26, 2018 12:52 AMPranesh 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.
Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly Communication
— by Subbiah Arunachalam and Muthu Madhan — last modified Oct 28, 2016 04:28 PMORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable.
How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 25, 2016 01:39 AMMobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
