*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
http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf
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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
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
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 dasbab...@gmail.comwrote:
When listing the “B” declarations on
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 jyog...@mext.go.jp
To: Global Open
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.
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
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
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 william.gunn at gmail.com
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) goal at
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
What would I like to see in 2012?Â
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.Â
I would like to see the emergence of strong Taxpayer Alliance for
) will diminish in
importance. That is where institutional and funder OA mandates become important.
Â
Arun
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore, India
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Dear Stevan:
I sent a message (to the list) suggesting that you should continue with the
good work you are doing and
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Dear Stevan:
I sent a message (to the list) suggesting that you should continue with the
good work you are doing and
in 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 e...@biostrat.demon.co.uk
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
Sent
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
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 Arunachalam
- Original
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 Balakrishnan
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 d@strath.ac.uk wrote
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
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
.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Leslie Carr l...@ecs.soton.ac.uk 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
1) create
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
arguments, even if they cannot stand scrutiny, and delay the process.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Liblicense-L Listowner wrote:
See:
http://www.the-aps.org/news/nihaccesscomments.htm
This site contains a short, though
. The relative merits are now
well known.
Subbiah Arunachalam
MS Swaminathan Institute, Chennai
Trustee, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
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
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 Arunachalam
MS
[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.
to
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
is 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 t...@ufl.edu wrote: I'm trying
to update what I know about
open archives and
OA journals) to be a very good thing to have happened.
Best wishes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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Friends:
Mr Albert Henderson wrote: There was no problem
linking library and RD 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 RD must be a
part of RD policy.
It was only after
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
and 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 publication costs and I suspect
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
] Subbiah Arunachalam
wrote:
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
the developed
world.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk 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 wrote:
We have
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
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Regards.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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 j.f.rowl...@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
Again, Albert has a point. These publicity
activities have
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
' 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 I published in the
Bulletin of ASIST a few months ago.
Arun
[Subbiah
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 work
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
as by and
large papers published by DC scientists do not get
noticed.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
--- Peter Suber pet...@earlham.edu wrote:
Momentum for eprint archiving
Institutional eprint archiving is currently
undergoing an unprecedented
surge of acceptance and support. Years of patient
work
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
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