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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>For your interest:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Indian Academy of Sciences*** now has its own <a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/">open access repository</a> 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. <b>This is the largest open access repository in India</b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/divisions.html">Indian Academy of Sciences: Subjects</a>:<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Animal=5FPlant.html">Animal/Plant Sciences</a> (5889)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Chemistry.html">Chemistry</a> (16469)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Earth=5FPlanet.html">Earth & Planetary Sciences</a> (2894)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Eng=5FTech.html">Engineering & Technology</a> (8091)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Gen=5FBio.html">General Biology</a> (7618)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Math.html">Mathematical Sciences</a> (2614)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Medicine.html">Medicine</a> (3409)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><a href="http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/divisions/Physics.html">Physics</a> (13871)<o:p></o:p></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>*** 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Eileen Shepherd<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#7030A0'>Principal Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#7030A0'>Faculty Liaison Services (Science & Pharmacy) <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ru.ac.za/library/"><span style='color:blue'>Rhodes University Library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Grahamstown<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Iryna Kuchma<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk<br><b>Cc:</b> AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [BOAI] Re: Open Access in so called "transitional countries", China, India, Russia -- request for information<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Katja, <br><br>Please have a look at the Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report: <a href="http://www.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-access-to-scholarly-literature" target="_blank">http://www.cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/open-access-to-scholarly-literature</a><br><br>China: <br><br><span lang=EN-GB>At the Berlin8 conference in Beijing, <span style='color:black'>Li Jinghai, Vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has announced that CAS would support the OA movement in China,</span><span style='color:red'> </span>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</span> also a CAS IR grid: <a href="http://www.irgrid.cas.cn/" target="_blank">http://www.irgrid.cas.cn/</a>. <span lang=EN-GB><br><br>CAS also:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>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;<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>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;<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Promote open publishing of CAS journals, and provide support;<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Support national policies on public access to publicly funded research papers and open access publishing of publicly funded (or partially publicly funded) STM journals;<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Actively support open access initiatives and programs of international STM communities, including supporting SCOAP3 initiative.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Develop OA research, advocacy, and supporting services<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>(http://www.las.cas.cn/xwzx/zhxw/201010/t20101029_2998973.html)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <br>There is also an OA journal portal: <a href="http://www.oaj.cas.cn" target="_blank">http://www.oaj.cas.cn</a> that <span style='font-size:9.0pt'>includes <b>115</b> journals and <b>507,023</b> articles (<a href="http://www.oaj.cas.cn/en/" target="_blank">http://www.oaj.cas.cn/en/</a>), sponsored by the CAS with cooperation from the Science Press and the National Science Library. <br><br>Russia:<br><br>Please have a look at </span>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): <a href="http://www.berlin8.org/userfiles/file/OA_in_Russia-Negulyaev,%20Okhezina_2003.pdf">http://www.berlin8.org/userfiles/file/OA_in_Russia-Negulyaev,%20Okhezina_2003.pdf</a>. The data are as of October 2010, so you might check some figures in the Directories, otherwise it is still very relevant. <br><br>Please let me know if you have any questions,<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Iryna Kuchma<br>EIFL Open Access programme manager<br><a href="http://www.eifl.net">www.eifl.net</a> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12 October 2011 12:14, Katja Mruck <<a href="mailto:katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de" target="_blank">katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All,<br><br>i received a request, concerning open access in so called "transitional<br>countries" (initiatives, legal conditions, publication practices, etc.)<br>as well as information and literature on the current state of open<br>access in China, India, and Russia -- any information, access to person<br>and feedback would be very welcome.<br><br>Thanks and a nice day from sunny Berlin!<br>Katja Mruck<br><br>--<br><br>Dr. Katja Mruck<br>Freie Universitaet Berlin<br>Ihnestr. 24<br>D - 14195 Berlin<br><br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de" target="_blank">katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de</a><br>Phone: <a href="tel:%2B%2B49%20%280%2930%20838%20-%2052%20779" target="_blank">++49 (0)30 838 - 52 779</a> (off.)<br>Fax: <a href="tel:%2B%2B49%20%280%2930%20838%20-%2052%20843" target="_blank">++49 (0)30 838 - 52 843</a><br><br>--<br>To unsubscribe from the BOAI Forum, use the form on this page:<br><a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f" target="_blank">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>