[BOAI] Re: Open Access in so called "transitional countries", China, India, Russia -- request for information

[Iryna Kuchma]

Dear Katja,

Please have a look at the Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A
Status Report:
http://www.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-access-to-scholarly-literature

China:

At the Berlin8 conference in Beijing, Li Jinghai, Vice president of Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), has announced that CAS would support the OA
movement in China, and Mr. Pan Jiaofeng, Vice Secretary-General of CAS
confirmed that the CAS, which adopted an OA policy in October 2010, has "an
ethical responsibility to make the information produced by researchers
available to the public, which is paying for the research" and has announced
that 63 CAS institutes in 22 Chinese cities now have OA repositories. There
is also a CAS IR grid: http://www.irgrid.cas.cn/.

CAS also:

   -

   Actively promote public access to publicly funded research papers, by
   encouraging CAS researchers to deposit their research papers into
   institutional repositories and to provide open access;
   -

   Actively promote open access publishing, by supporting CAS authors to
   publish in important OA journals and by recommending national funding
   agencies to cover APCs from research funds for Chinese authors;
   -

   Promote open publishing of CAS journals, and provide support;
   -

   Support national policies on public access to publicly funded research
   papers and open access publishing of publicly funded (or partially publicly
   funded) STM journals;
   -

   Actively support open access initiatives and programs of international
   STM communities, including supporting SCOAP3 initiative.
   -

   Develop OA research, advocacy, and supporting services

(http://www.las.cas.cn/xwzx/zhxw/201010/t20101029_2998973.html)

There is also an OA journal portal: http://www.oaj.cas.cn that includes *115
* journals and *507,023* articles (http://www.oaj.cas.cn/en/), sponsored by
the CAS with cooperation from the Science Press and the National Science
Library.

Russia:

Please have a look at these slides (also from Berlin 8): Open Access
Movement in Russia, Evgeny Negulyaev (Head of Department of IT, Scientific
Library, Ural State University, Russia) & Elena Okhezina (Deputy Library
Director, Ural State University, Russia):
http://www.berlin8.org/userfiles/file/OA_in_Russia-Negulyaev,%20Okhezina_2003.pdf.
The data are as of October 2010, so you might check some figures in the
Directories, otherwise it is still very relevant.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Best wishes,
Iryna Kuchma
EIFL Open Access programme manager
www.eifl.net

On 12 October 2011 12:14, Katja Mruck <katja.mruck at fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> i received a request, concerning open access in so called "transitional
> countries" (initiatives, legal conditions, publication practices, etc.)
> as well as information and literature on the current state of open
> access in China, India, and Russia -- any information, access to person
> and feedback would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks and a nice day from sunny Berlin!
> Katja Mruck
>
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