Paper include in Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Conference (OAMII 2012)
Open Access Movement in the Age of Innovation and ICT: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
6th & 7th January, 2012
1. Open Archive Developments in
India
Dr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor,
SHPT School of Library Science
UGC Sponsored National Conference (OAMII
2012)
Open Access Movement in the Age of
Innovation and ICT: Trends, Challenges and
Opportunities
6th & 7th January, 2012
2. Pioneers of growth of Open
Access in India
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam
Prof. N. Balakrishnan
Dr. T. B. Rajashekar
Dr D. K. Sahu
A. R. D. Prasad and so on………….
3. India wide programmes on OA
• Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam organized a workshop
on ‘Open Access and Institutional Repositories’
under the aegis of the M. S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation, Chennai, in May, 2004
• A special session on OA was held at the 93rd
Indian Science Congress in January 2006
• In mid-March 2006, NCSI-IISc had created a
Cross Archive Search Service for the Indian
Repositories (CASSIR).
• The Open Access Week
(www.openaccessweek.org) was held worldwide
from 18 to 24 October, 2010
• A one-day seminar on open access took place on
16th March, 2011 at India International Centre,
4. National Knowledge Commission:
Open Access and Open Educational
Resources
Research articles published by Indian authors
receiving any government or public funding must
be made available under OA
Government should allocate specific funding to
increase the digitization , high quality OCR
Author paid journals
Specific fund for OA research publications
5. Present Scene of Open
Archives
Shodhganga: 2000 full-text theses of 30
universities
Google is in touch with NKC
Indian mirror-site for arXiv
Promise from director of IISc and CSIR
E-gyankosh
Journal of Free Software and Free Knowledge &
Annals OJS