[Reader-list] Tomorrow (October 14) is Open Access Day

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear All,
This is to remind everyone that tomorrow is Open Access Day, and that
the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia (New
Delhi) and the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) are jointly
organizing a meeting at Jamia Millia Islamia to celebrate the
occasion.

Details at:
http://cis-india.org/advocacy/open-access/open-access-day/agenda

A map for those attending:
http://cis-india.org/advocacy/open-access/open-access-day/map.jpg

Regards,
Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society

P: +91 80 40926283
W: http://cis-india.org

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Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi and Cente 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 Access 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, Shariff 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