[GOAL] Submission to MHRD and Min. of Science & Tech. on Open Access Policy

Thu Jul 3 16:49:09 BST 2014

Forwarding from Dominique Babini:

From: open-access [mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Dominique Babini
Sent: 03 July 2014 15:05
To: Sridhar Gutam
Subject: Re: [Open-access] Submission to MHRD and Min. of Science & Tech. on Open Access Policy

Dear Sridhar,

Congratulations to Open Access advocates in India for this initiative motivating researchers and information specialists from India to share their thoughts and messages with the Ministers responsible.  I follow with great interest Dr.Subbiah Arunachalam and also the Facebook group "Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/> "

I hope you will manage in India, as we did in Argentina <http://en.mincyt.gob.ar/news/the-law-on-open-access-to-scientific-information-was-approved-9320> , to "mandate" Open Access, and not simply "recommend" it, so as to ensure that research undertaken with public funds, or in institutions with public support, will be available in Open Access.  

And let´s hope you can establish that immediate Open Access is required to medatata with an "OA button" (to request a copy of the paper to the author) , even if the availability of the full-text in Open Access waits until the end of the embargo period established by publishers.   As so well expressed by Stevan Harnad in his <http://poynder.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-subversive-proposal-at-20.html>  interview with Richard Poynder:

“To maximize the access, uptake, usage, progress, productivity, applications and impact of your publicly funded research output, mandate (require) that the refereed, revised, accepted final draft of all articles must be deposited in the author’s institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication as a condition for research evaluation and funding. If you allow an embargo on making the deposit OA (freely accessible to all online), implement the automated almost-OA Button (and don’t let the embargo exceed 6-12 months at most). This is called “Gratis Green OA.” Do not pay for Gold OA journal publication fees (“Fool’s Gold”) until global Green OA has made subscriptions unsustainable; then you can pay for Fair-Gold out of your subscription cancellation savings. Fair-Gold will also be Libre OA (with re-use rights such as data-mining, re-mixing and re-publishing). Ignore publishers’ lobbying to the effect that Green OA will destroy peer-reviewed journal publishing: it will re-vitalize it and save the research community a lot of money while maximizing the access, uptake, usage, progress, productivity, applications and impact of their research”.(Stevan Harnad, 2014 <http://poynder.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-subversive-proposal-at-20.html> )

All the best for your OA national legislation advocacy,

Dominique

Dra. Dominique Babini
* Latin America Council of Social Sciences-CLACSO/Open Access Area Coordinator 
* University of Buenos Aires-IIGG/Open access scholarly communications researcher

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2014-07-01 3:45 GMT-03:00 Sridhar Gutam <gutam2000 at gmail.com <mailto:gutam2000 at gmail.com> >:

Dear All,

Now the time has come to start and campaign and also to submit to MHRD and Min. of S&T on National Open Access Policy.

Please share your thoughts and messages with the Ministers responsible (i.e. Hon'ble PM Mr. Narendra Modi (@narendramodi https://www.facebook.com/narendramodi and Hon'ble Minister HRD Ms. Smriti Z. Irani @smritiirani https://www.facebook.com/Smriti.Irani.Official).

Thanks & Regards

Sridhar

On behalf of Open Access India

Sridhar Gutam

( <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia> https://www.facebook.com/oaindia;  <https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/> https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/;  <http://oaindia2013.wordpress.com/> http://oaindia2013.wordpress.com/)

Resources:-

http://sparceurope.org/ireland-has-announced-a-national-open-access-policy/

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/research/NationalPrinciplesOpenAccessPolicyStatement.pdf

http://www.dst.gov.in/NDSAP.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-report-2011_en.pdf

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html

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