[Reader-list] Open Access Day

[Sunil Abraham]

With the usual apologies for x-posting!

Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
and  Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, request your presence at
the celebrations of the first

                            Open Access Day

on 14th October 2008, at Tagore Hall, Dayar-i-Mir Taqi Mir, Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi

Agenda
1400 – 1415
Welcome and Introduction – Prof. Biswajit Das, Director, Centre for
Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia

1415 – 1535
Chair: Prof. Arif Ali, Head Dept. of Bio-Technology, Jamia Milia Islamia
Panelists:  
     1. Mr. Zakir Thomas, Project Director -  Open Source Drug
        Discovery 
     2. Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj, Scientist CSIR, New Delhi.
     3. Dr. Andrew Lynn, Professor, Department of Bio-informatics,
        Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
     4. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for
        Internet and Society

1535 – 1600
Questions and Answers
Open Discussion

1600 - 1615
Vote of thanks and closure by Sunil Abraham, Director – Policy, Centre
for Internet and Society. 
End with Tea/Coffee


About the Open Access Movement
        Open Access1 is a growing international movement that uses the
        Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.
        It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with
        everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of
        science and society.
        
        Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research
        should be freely accessible online, immediately after
        publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the
        world as research funders and policy makers put their weight
        behind it.
        
        The Open Access philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when
        the Budapest Open Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly
        took root in the scientific and medical communities because it
        offered an alternative route to research literature that was
        frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers.
        
        Today, the OAIster search engine provides access to 17,799,314
        Open Access records from 1015 contributors. According to the
        Directory of Open Access Journals – India publishes 105 Open
        Access journals. Both INSA and IASc have made their journals
        open access journals. Indian Institute of Science has an EPrints
        repository and it has over 11,000 papers and this year, the
        Institute's centenary year, the number is expected to cross
        23,000. NIT, Rourkela, has mandated open access to all faculty
        research papers. There are about thirty OA institutional
        repositories in India today. The IITs and IISc have formed a
        consortium and are making their class lectures open access under
        a project called NPTEL. These lectures are available in web,
        video and YouTube formats. 

About Open Access Day
        October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The
        founding partners for this Day are SPARC (the Scholarly
        Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for
        FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.
        
        Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding
        of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies,
        within the international higher education community and the
        general public.
        

Contact Details:
        New Delhi
        Vibodh Parthasarathi
        Reader/Associate Professor 
        Centre for Culture, Media and Governance
        Nelson Mandela House, Mujib Bagh
        Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110 025
        P.: +91 11 26933810. 26933842
        M: +91 9873458688
        E: ccmgjmi at gmail.com
        W: http://jmi.nic.in/ccmg

        Bangalore
        Sunil Abraham
        Director - Policy
        Centre for Internet and Society
        No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
        14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560 052
        P: +91 80 4092 6283 F: +91 80 4114 8130
        M: +91 9611100817 
        E: sunil at cis-india.org 
        W: www.cis-india.org