Open Access
After 15 Years, Is Free Access to Law Here to Stay?
— by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AMCIS, in collaboration with partners LexUM and SAFLII, is undertaking a Global Free Access to Law Study. Being the first of its kind within the Free Access to Law Movement, this comparative study will examine what free access to law initiatives do, evaluate their core benefits and identify factors determining of their sustainability. In the end, the free access to law study will provide future initiatives and existing LII networks with proven and adoptable best practices which will support the continued growth of the legal information commons.
Letter on South Africa's IPRs from Publicly Financed R&D Regulations
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:42 AMBeing interested in legislations in developing nations styled after the United States' Bayh-Dole Act, CIS responded to the call issued by the South African Department of Science and Technology for comments to the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Regulations.
International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009: A Report
— by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:01 AMOpen Access activist Madhan Muthu recently attended the International Repository Infrastructure Workshop, held in Amsterdam, 16-17 March 2009, in company with CIS Distinguished Fellow Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam. In this entry, as a guest blogger for CIS, he files a report on the proceedings at the workshop.
Journals, Open Access, Copyright, Repositories
— by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:01 AMProf N. Mukunda, Editor of Publications, The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, discusses open access in his keynote address at the 26 March 2009 one-day conference on 'Scholarly Communications in the Age of the Commons'.
The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
— by Siddharth Chadha — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AMFilm-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
Open Access Day celebrated in India
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance co-organised joint celebrations of Open Access Day in Jamia Millia Islamia campus on the 14th of October 2008. Around 50 people attended the event from different departments in Jamia there were also some participants from the Indian Linux Users Group. CIS also published an Open Access flyer on this day featuring quotations from Sam Pitroda, MS Swaminathan, Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Frederick Noronha, Barbara Kirsop and Samir Brahmachari.
A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AMProf. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.
Open Access to Science and Research
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Why Do We Need Open Access to Science?: A Developing Country Perspective
— by admin — last modified Oct 11, 2008 09:45 AMProf. Arunachalam's paper presented at the A2k3 conference in Geneva.
Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India — A Status Report
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:47 AMThis report was prepared by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madan Muthu on 9 April 2011.
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