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<font size=3>[Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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Dear Peter:<br>
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Here is some good news which may be shared through Open Access News.<br>
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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
<a href="http://www.niscair.res.in/">www.niscair.res.in</a> 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.<br>
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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. <br>
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By end of July 2009, the editors tell me, all the remaining journals will
become open access. <br>
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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. <br>
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Regards.<br>
<br>
Arun<br>
[Subbiah Arunachalam]<br>
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