India will have two more institutes to promote science and technology in Pune and Kolkata on the lines of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Wednesday. "I have always felt that it is a pity that a country of a billion people has only one Indian Institute of Science," he said after giving away the CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2004 and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar prizes for Science and Technology here.
(PS: The Indian Institute of Science is a leader in OA to Indian research, offering OA to its house journal back to its launch in 1914. Let's hope that the Pune and Kolkata institutes will share its commitment to OA.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/29/2005 11:21:00 AM.
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.
