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Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists
— by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 16, 2017 11:30 AMAn Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017
Comments on the Draft National Policy on Software Products
— by Anubha Sinha, Rohini Lakshané, and Udbhav Tiwari — last modified Dec 12, 2016 02:45 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society submitted public comments to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Information & Communications Technology, Govt. of India on the National Policy of Software Products on December 9, 2016.
Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Apr 17, 2017 06:44 AMAn Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
4 tips for DIY makers
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 22, 2016 02:36 AMI started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.
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.
Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 27, 2016 01:07 AMThe free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
— by Harsh Gupta — last modified Oct 20, 2016 01:44 AMWorld Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
OpenData Week in Madrid - OD4D Summit, Open Data Charter Meetings, and IODC16
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 16, 2016 03:11 AMSumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Oct 12, 2016 04:22 PMIn an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
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