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

Wed Oct 12 12:48:55 BST 2011

For your interest:

The Indian Academy of Sciences*** now has its own open access repository
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/>  for papers by all its Fellows, both living
and deceased. The repository was officially announced by the President of
the Academy, Prof. A K Sood, on 30 September 2011. As of today, it provides
access to more than 60,400 documents, but not all of them full text. Efforts
are being made to deposit full texts of all papers. This is the largest open
access repository in India.

Indian Academy of Sciences: Subjects
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/divisions.html> :

*	Animal/Plant Sciences
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Animal=5FPlant.html>  (5889)
*	Chemistry
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Chemistry.html>  (16469)
*	Earth
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Earth=5FPlanet.html> & Planetary
Sciences (2894)
*	Engineering
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Eng=5FTech.html> & Technology
(8091)
*	General Biology
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Gen=5FBio.html>  (7618)
*	Mathematical Sciences
<http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Math.html>  (2614)
*	Medicine <http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Medicine.html>
(3409)
*	Physics <http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Physics.html>
(13871)

***   The Indian Academy of Sciences was founded and registered as a society
in 1934 with the aim to promote the progress and uphold the cause of
science, both in pure and applied branches. We strive to meet our objectives
through original research and dissemination of scientific knowledge to the
community via our meetings, discussions, seminars, symposia and
publications.

Academy as on date has around 1,500+ Fellows, out of which, past members
account for 600-700. It is estimated that the total number of articles
published so far by all fellows in various national and international
publications could be around 100,000.

Publications of the IAS fellows repository collects, preserves and
disseminates in digital format the research output created by the fellows of
the Indian Academy of Sciences. It enables the Academy community to deposit
their preprints, postprints and other scholarly publications, and organizes
these publications for easy retrieval. While Publications of the IAS fellows
can be accessed by anybody, submission of documents to this repository is
limited to the fellows of the Academy only. Publications of the IAS fellows
repository is running on EPrints open archive software, a freely
distributable archive system available from eprints.org. Publications of the
IAS fellows complies with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) framework
allowing publications to be easily indexed by web search engines and other
indexing services.

Eileen Shepherd

Principal Librarian

Faculty Liaison Services (Science & Pharmacy)  

 <http://www.ru.ac.za/library/> Rhodes University Library

Grahamstown

South Africa

From: boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Iryna Kuchma
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:00 PM
To: boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at listserver.sigmaxi.org
Subject: [BOAI] Re: Open Access in so called "transitional countries",
China, India, Russia -- request for information

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-lit
erature

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_200
3.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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