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India's CSIR asks its labs to adopt OA mandates India's Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has recommended that each of its 40+ laboratories adopt an OA mandate. From the memorandum of Naresh Kumar, Head of CSIR's R&D Planning Division, to the directors of all CSIR labs (and others), February 6, 2009:
Comment. This is not an OA mandate, but a request or recommendation that individual labs adopt their own mandates. But it should carry weight, and it's unusually comprehensive: not only that the labs launch IRs and mandate OA (green or gold), but that CSIR itself convert all its journals to OA. Kudos to the members of GOASP for making a strong case, and kudos to the CSIR leadership for taking it up. Labels: Hot |