[BOAI] NISCAIR journals going OA

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam.  --Peter Suber.]


Dear Peter:

Here is some good news which may be shared through Open Access News.

NISCAIR (National Institute of Science Communication and Information 
Resources), the publishing arm of India's Council of Scientific and 
Industrial Research (CSIR), publishes17 journals (one of them in Hindi) and 
two abstracting journals. Please see 
<http://www.niscair.res.in/>www.niscair.res.in for the list of journals. On 
14 October 2008, two of them were made open access: Indian Journal of 
Chemistry Section A, and Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Now four more have become open access: Indian Journal of Chemistry B, 
Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, Journal of Scientific and 
Industrial Research, and Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics. This 
information is not yet recorded by DOAJ.

By end of July 2009, the editors tell me, all the remaining journals will 
become open access.

We should thank Prof. Samir K Brahmachari, Director General of CSIR, for 
sending out a note to directors of all CSIR laboratories on 6 February 2009 
requesting them to se up institutional repositories in each laboratory and 
to make all CSIR journals open access. We must also thank Dr Gangan 
Prathap, the new Director of NISCAIR, for the speedy implementation of OA 
at NISCAIR.

Regards.

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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