The DBT/DST OA Mandate is excellent. It includes all six critical conditions for a natural, effective, verifiable and successful policy:
1. Author freedom of choice of journal is preserved. 2. Author may choose Green OA self-archiving or Gold OA publishing 3. *Final refereed draft must be deposited in institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication* 4. *Funding is contingent on immediate deposit* 5. Publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA not to exceed 12 months 6. *Repository should have the copy-request Button so author can provide individual access during embargo* The critical conditions are excerpted below: DBT/DST Open Access Policy Grantees can make their papers open-access by publishing in an open-access journal or, if they choose to publish in a subscription journal, by posting the final accepted manuscript to an online repository. What should be deposited? The final accepted manuscript (after refereeing, revision, etc.) Where to deposit? The manuscript should be deposited in the grantee’s own institution’s interoperable institutional repository (IR). If the institution does not yet have an IR of its own, then the paper should be deposited in the central repository, which will be created by *DBT/DST.* When to deposit? Deposits should be made within one week of acceptance by the journal. However, if the journal insists on an embargo, the material should still be deposited, but the repository will keep the deposited papers non-OA and only make it fully OA at the end of the embargo period. Suggest that the period of embargo not be greater than one year. A*rticles* *under* *an embargo can still be made available to individuals by use of the Request Button available with the IR software. By use of the Request Button, a reader may automatically send a request for a copy to the author, as is commonly done by other communication means.* Who should deposit? The principal investigator (PI) or someone authorized by the PI, or anyone authorized by the head of the institution where the work is carried out (such as the librarian), can deposit the papers. Both the PI and the head of the institution will be responsible for timely deposit of the paper. Depositing in a repository is mandatory Unless the deposit ID is quoted in the project report as well as in future proposals for funding, the proposals will not be considered. The DBT/DST recommend/s that all authors receiving funds from DBT/DST should, at the time of returning the copyright transfer form, inform the publisher that they would retain the right to place the full-text of the final author version in the institution’s IR and DBT/DST Central. This can be achieved by attaching to the copyright transfer agreement the DBT/DST author addendum. *Stevan Harnad* On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam < > subbiah.arunacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > Here is the proposed OA policy for DBT and DST, Government of India. > > > > http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf > > > > Your comments and suggestions are welcome. > > > > With best regards, > > > > Arun > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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