... [Subbiah Arunachalam] outlines the strengths [of OA], for journals: Many leading journals published in India are already open access. ...
Says he: "Thus India publishes about 100 OA journals. Actually these are hybrid journals (print plus electronic, with the print version sold against a subscription). No Indian journal charges a fee from the authors for publishing papers. ..."
At the level of repositories: About thirty institutions have set up their own interoperable institutional open access repositories ... Indian Institute of Science was the first to set up and the IISc EPrints archive has over 8000 records. NIT Rourkela is the only Indian institution to have mandated open access for all faculty and student research publications.
There are three subject-based central repositories. Of these, there is one each for library and information science (DRTC), medicine (NIC) and catalysis (IIT Madras).
The National Knowledge Commission has recommended mandating open access to all publicly funded research and the recommendation is now with the Prime Minister. ...
digitalhimalaya.com offers books and publications available in Creative Commons, FDL, Open Content in Nepal. It is a project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. ...
Nepal on the Directory of Open Access Journals: Some links to professional journals published from Nepal can also be found here. These include the Journal of Nepal Medical Association, Kathmandu University Medical Journal, Nepal Journal of Neuroscience, and Our Nature. ...
Filipiniana.net is the most comprehensive and most technologically-advanced digital library and research portal on Philippine studies. Among Filipiniana.net's special features is a fully-indexed collection of books, documents and other artifacts on Philippine history, culture, and society. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/11/2008 05:56:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
