[GOAL] Libraries and Open Access

*Discussion Forum on Global Equity,Libraries and Open Access* at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on 26 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:30 GMT. https://goo.gl/1o7aNe Arun http://orcid.org/-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

[GOAL] {Disarmed} Fw: [oadl] Re: ReOpen Access Policy on Website for Comments-Revised(4.7.2014)

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[GOAL] Fwd: Invitation to felicitation function for Mr.Madhan Muthu on 9 June 2014 at 11am

Friends: A function felicitating *Mr.Madhan Muthu,* Manager, Library and Information Services, at ICRISAT will be held in IIT Madras on* June 9 2014* at *11am in the Conference room on the 4th floor of the central library. *Prof. Pennathur Gautam will give away the *EPT Award* for excellence in

[GOAL] Fwd: Elsevier's Unforced Error

If, after all this, the scientists of the world do not unite now and revive the 'Boycott Elsevier' movement, we cannot blame the publisher hereafter. How can governments and funding bodies which support research remain silent spectators and let publishing companies hijack the copyright to the rese

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] OA declarations

You may include the Bangalore Declaration of 2006 as well. It was adopted at an international workshop held at IISc, Bangalore, and drafted by Alma swan and Barbara Kirsop. Arun On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Dominique Babini wrote: > When listing the “B” declarations on Open Access, we shou

[GOAL] Re: Japan's National OA Mandate for ETDs.

The worldwide OA community will be greatful to Prof. SHUTO Makota if he (or one of his colleagues) to write a detailed article in English on the Japanese policy on making all dissertations OA. Arun  From: "jyog...@mext.go.jp" To: Global Open Access List (Succ

[GOAL] The editorial on OA by Prof. Balaram

Friends: Here is an editorial by Prof. Padmabhan Balaram in CURRENT SCIENCE dated 25 Feb 2013. It deserves wide circulation. Regards. Arun cs-pb-oa-25feb2013.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ec

[GOAL] On Aaron Swartz's martyrdom

Friends: Here are two commentaries on why knowledge must be free by two of my colleagues at the Centre for Internet and and Society. One is a video interview and the other is in plain text. Both will be of interest to anyone interested in openness.

[GOAL] Fw: [oadl] Public awareness of the OA movement

Friends: Please see the Economist debate on academic journals [ http://www.economist.com/economist-asks/do-fee-charging-academic-journals-offer-value-added-0?sort=2#sort-comments . It has not attracted many comments from readers - a clear indication that the general public (at least the segment

[GOAL] Re: ARSSF Signs Berlin Declaration

It is good to hear that this Forum has signed the Berlin Declaration. The more important thing will be for each one of these members to make all their research publications open access. And for all their institutions to set up and populate OA repositories. Very few agricultural research and teac

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

As someone living and working in a not-so-affluent country, I know the value of gratis access to the journal literature of science and scholarship. Let us not keep quibbling over definitions. What should guide us now is the speed with which we can bring as much of the literature as possible into

[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

As someone living and working in a not-so-affluent country, I know the value of gratis access to the journal literature of science and scholarship. Let us not keep quibbling over definitions. What should guide us now is the speed with which we can bring as much of the literature as possible into th

[GOAL] Re: op-ed on Research Works Act in today's NYT

Popvox forms cannot be sent unless one mentions the name of a US state and therefore non-US citizens cannot fill in and send their views on any US bill! Arun From: William Gunn To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 201

[GOAL] Re: Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013

Congratulations Prof. Brentier on taking this bold and innovative step. Now we should persuade funding agencies in other countries to take similar steps. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, India

[GOAL] Re: Belgium: Funder's Green OA mandate for 2013

Congratulations Prof. Brentier on taking this bold and innovative step. Now we should persuade funding agencies in other countries to take similar steps. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, India From: "brentier at ulg.

[GOAL] What would I like to see in 2012?

What would I like to see in 2012?  I would like to see the Minister of Human Resource Development and the Minister for Science and Technology in New Delhi issue a mandate for open access to all publicly funded research in India.  I would like to see the emergence of strong Taxpayer Alliance for

[GOAL] What would I like to see in 2012?

What would I like to see in 2012? I would like to see the Minister of Human Resource Development and the Minister for Science and Technology in New Delhi issue a mandate for open access to all publicly funded research in India. I would like to see the emergence of strong Taxpayer Alliance for Ope

Access problem and affordability

nsive journals) will diminish in importance. That is where institutional and funder OA mandates become important.   Arun Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, India

New ways of measuring research

tc.) are seriously flawed and promote seriously flawed analysesÿÿ and ÿÿBecause of the above, reports like the ÿÿGathering Stormÿÿ provide seriously flawed analyses and misguided advice to science policy decision makers.ÿÿ Should we rethink our approach to evaluation of science? Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

Re: correction Re: Off-Line Vote on Moderator Change

[ The following text is in the "utf-8" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Dear Stevan: I sent a message (to the list) suggesting that you should continue with the good work you are doing and

Re: correction Re: Off-Line Vote on Moderator Change

[ The following text is in the "utf-8" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Dear Stevan: I sent a message (to the list) suggesting that you should continue with the good work you are doing and

Re: Jean-Claude Gu�don is wrong, and so is Zinath Rehana

the developing world are greatly indebted to you for your tireless efforts to democratise knowledge and open up the flow of information. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] - Original Message From: Ept To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Friday, 3 October, 2008

Re: OA in developing countries

Sally and Jean-Claude may know that ISTIC, Beijing produces Chinese Science Citation Index. A recent study by ISTIC has shown that in terms of publications in journals China now occupies the second rank. Probably the study used the Chinese Science Citation Index. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam

Re: Problems with Author-side payment

journals. Not one of them charges author-side fees for publishing a research paper. Indeed, MedKnow Publications, Bombay, produces more than 40 OA journals and it actually makes  profit. Dr Sahu, the CEO of MedKnow, has given many talks on the business model followed by the company. Subbiah Arunach

Re: T.B. Rajashekar, Indian Open Access Pioneer: 1954-2005

and fill them with papers, modernize their curricula and teach their students the values practiced by him. Subbiah Arunachalam & N Balakrishnan ----- Subbiah Arunachalam is Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India N Balakrishna

Re: Six Open Access Talks April - June 2005

Good to hear that many institutions in different countries are taking the lead. I am happy to see the OAA movement truly emerging as a bottom-up participatory movement. Now the chances of success are pretty high. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Derek Law wrote: > And the University of Mi

Ann Okerson on institutional archives

Friends: "Ann Okerson weighs the pros and cons of OA for US research libraries, noting that institutional repositories are likely to be expensive, and their focus in the U.S. is likely to be on locally produced scholarly materials other than articles. Consequently: "It is unlikely that

Re: Will the RCUK support OA?

If the research councils in the UK are keen to go ahead with promoting and implementing OAA and if they need additional funding for this purpose and if it does not come from the treasury, then we should persuade organizations such as the Wellcome Trust and Andrew Mellon Foundation to provide the fu

Re: NIH public-access policy finally released (fwd)

. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Leslie Carr wrote: > After all this speculation I have to say that my > quibble is not with > the policy as stated (though it is undoubtedly > flawed in expression and > implementation) but with the aims of the policy > which are to > > &qu

Re: University of Southampton to provide free access to academic research online

Congratulations to the University of Southampton. We have always enjoyed reading the powerful writings of Stevan Hranad and we (at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India) had the privilege of having Les Carr for a whole week early this year when he conducted two workshops on open

Re: Critique of APS Critique of NIH Proposal

arguments, even if they cannot stand scrutiny, and delay the process. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Stevan Harnad wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Liblicense-L Listowner wrote: > > > See: > <http://www.the-aps.org/news/nihaccesscomments.htm> > > > > This s

Re: Wellcome Trust statement on open access

. The relative merits are now well known. Subbiah Arunachalam MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai Trustee, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

Re: How To Support Institutional OA Archive Start-Up and OA Content Provision

needed. Indeed, Dr Rajashekar has introduced some welcome improvements to the Eprints software. Subbiah Arunachalam MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai Trustee, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development -Original Message- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday

On Distinguishing Open Access Self-Archiving from Open Access Journal Publishing

join those who are trying to enlarge this constituency. They should lobby for support to the UK House of Commons Committee's recommendations for mandatory archiving of papers. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm Regards. Subbiah Arunachal

Re: Please provide publisher/journal self-archiving policies for Romeo Directory

[Amsci Moderator's note: Reply follows below query] Stevan may kindly clarify if all the 11,000 journals (from 97 publishers) surveyed so far allow self-archiving. If not does the 84% still hold good, or has this number also changed with the increase in the number of journals surveyed. thanks

Open Access Workshop in China, June 2004

open access. China is forging ahead! Subbiah Arunachalam MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai Trustee, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development Draft 2 June 2004 International Workshop on Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access

Re: How many journals sell authors Open Access by the article?

ridiculously low compared to the subscription costs of even journals published by professional societies in USA and Europe, let alone commercial publishers. There are other such journals as well. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Thomas Walker wrote: > I'm trying to update what I know about

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

Dr Suhail A. Rahman says "I disagree simply because a prerequisite for self archiving is publication in the first instance (unless Stevan is implying self archiving prior to publication)." One can self archive both preprints and postprints. I suggest that Suhail visit the arXiv and spend a few min

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

work for teaching and learning. "In this spirit, MIT has asked itself, in the words of T. S. Eliot, 'Do I dare...Disturb the universe?' "Our answer is yes. We call this project MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). We see it as opening a new door to the powerful, democratizing, and transforming power of education." Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

Friends: Mr Albert Henderson wrote: "There was no problem linking library and R&D spending during the 1960s, when political pressures demanded better science. It would seem fundamental to any school child that spending on libraries used to prepare R&D must be a part of R&D policy. It was only aft

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

ind open access (both open archives and OA journals) to be a very good thing to have happened. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ___ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk

Re: Author Publication Charge Debate

Friends: Suhail has decided not to submit any paper to any OA journal, because they "are just as extremely commercial and just as obscenely priced." Suhail is annoyed with PLoS and BMC journals because they charge author fees and many authors in poor countries cannot afford author fees. But then t

Re: Archivangelism

donor agencies to promote it. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] > Iain Stevenson wrote: > >is> (a). Implicitly, the publication model of open-access and self-archiving >is> reflects the publishing culture of Anglo-American STM research, well-funded >is> with grants that include

Re: Op Ed piece to use to promote Open Access

! > > Best wishes, > > Stevan > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam > wrote: > > > Stevan: > > > > Not all 1000 or so open access journals charge the > > authors' institution a publication fee as do > BioMed > >

Re: Op Ed piece to use to promote Open Access

Stevan: Not all 1000 or so open access journals charge the authors' institution a publication fee as do BioMed Central and PLoS. I don't think BMJ charges any fee. Nor does Current Science. Of course, Current Science gets part of its revenue from subscription to the print version and the rest from

Re: Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output

developed world. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Stevan Harnad wrote: > Dear Prof. Rajashekar, > > Congratulations on the IISc Eprints Archive! > http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ > > Here are some replies to your queries: > > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Dr. T.B. Rajashekar w

Re: Draft Policy for Self-Archiving University Research Output

Dear Stevan: I spoke about open access at the Annual Meeting of INSA [Indian national Science Academy] and the Centenary Celebration of the National Library of India held at the Asiatic Society, Bombay. The talks were well received. We raised the point that although the Indian Institute of Scienc

InterAcademy Panel on International Issues Mexico, 1-5 December 2003

r=/event/events-list?showall=t Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

Open Access Side-Event at World Summit on the Information Society

science." (For some useful information: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ ) Subbiah Arunachalam

Re: Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time

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Re: Scientific publishing is not just about administering peer-review

Friends: I understand that BioMed Central charges $500 per paper as cost of publishing expenses, whereas PLos charges $1,500. Why is this large difference? Subbiah Arunachalam --- Fytton Rowland wrote: > Again, Albert has a point. These publicity > activities have a price-tag. > Pe

Re: Third World Academy of Sciences and open access

I suggest that champions of open access and self-archiving and groups such as BOAI-Forum, September 1998 American Scientist Forum and the SPARC - OA Forum write to (1) Mr Kofi Annan, (2) Presidents of the leading scientific Academies and societies of the world, (3) key organizations managing WSIS a

Re: Public Access to Science Act (Sabo Bill, H.R. 2613)

Dear Sally, In which case why were publishers insisting on transferring copyright ll these days and even asking authors to pay when they wanted to reproduce figures (originally published in papers published in journals) in books (they wrote subsequently)? Regards. Arun --- Sally Morris wrote

Re: Access-Denial, Impact-Denial and the Developing and Developed World

e costs of producing and distributing the 'journal' is absorbed by someone on the authors' side (e.g. the funding agency which supported the research) and the readers don't pay anything. BioMed Central is a good example. I have articulated my views on this subject in an article

BOAI-1 (self-archiving) and BOAI-2 (open-access journals)

tevan Harnad. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] -Original Message- From: for...@localhost.cern.ch Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: rsis_education : Online journals I wish Subbiah Arunachalam can provide some details of the institutional self archiving model? How does or will it

Re: Interoperability - subject classification/terminology

Thanks very much Peter, Stevan, Johnson and others who have given your valuable comments. Let me pose my question in another form: The new information and communication technologies have tremendous potential to facilitate communication flow among scientists (researchers) and between scientists and

Re: Interoperability - subject classification/terminology

Why is it that Open Archives/ E-prints works well in some fields (physics, astronomy, computer science) and not in other fields (say, agriculture)? I would like to hear from members of the list. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Pauline Simpson wrote: > Dear All > > At the OAI Geneva I

Re: Momentum for Eprint Archiving

by DC scientists do not get noticed. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Peter Suber wrote: > Momentum for eprint archiving > > Institutional eprint archiving is currently > undergoing an unprecedented > surge of acceptance and support. Years of patient > work by many people >

Re: Ingenta to offer OAI eprint service

Dear Stevan: I hear that Eprints has entered into an agreement with Ingenta and that future versions of Eprints software may not be free. Is it true? Is this an admission that the Open access movement is losing momentum and even the greatest of its champions is entering into an agreement with a co