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34 Open-Access Initiatives in India
34 Open-Access Initiatives in India
Pages 154-157
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Open-access publishing enables researchers in developing countries to establish priority for their research, which they could use later to defend their intellectual property. It removes excess barriers in terms of both price and permission, enhances national research capacity, and improves visibility for developing-country research.
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The managing editor of these journals noted that offering these journals on the Web has increased subscriptions to the print journals from foreign countries, because more researchers and libraries outside India are learning about them. The Indian National Science Academy publishes journals, proceedings, and monographs and provides these online.3 Vidyanidhi, meaning the "treasure of knowledge" in Sanskrit, is another open-access initiative that is trying to digitize and host theses and dissertations.
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It supports an information library network program INFLIBNET that makes meta databases related to R&D projects available on the Web.9 There are other major open-access initiatives as well. For example, the World Health Organization and the Indian Council for Medical Research are working together on the National Health Information Collaboration.
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Once the system starts evolving, it could run on its own. It is also very important to have the support of organizations like UNESCO, ICSTI, ICSU, and CODATA to promote and support these initiatives.
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