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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Forwarding from Dominique Babini:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> open-access [mailto:open-access-bounces@lists.okfn.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dominique Babini<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 July 2014 15:05<br><b>To:</b> Sridhar Gutam<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Open-access] Submission to MHRD and Min. of Science & Tech. on Open Access Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear Sridhar,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Congratulations to Open Access advocates in India for this initiative motivating researchers and information specialists from India to <span style='color:black'>share their thoughts and messages with the Ministers responsible. I follow with great interest Dr.Subbiah Arunachalam and also the Facebook group "</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/" target="_blank">Open Access India</a><span style='color:black'>"</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I hope you will manage in India, as <a href="http://en.mincyt.gob.ar/news/the-law-on-open-access-to-scientific-information-was-approved-9320" target="_blank">we did in Argentina</a>, 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. </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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<a href="http://poynder.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-subversive-proposal-at-20.html" target="_blank"> interview with Richard Poynder</a>:</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span lang=EN-US>“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. </span>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). </i><i><span lang=EN-US>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”.(</span></i><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-subversive-proposal-at-20.html" target="_blank">Stevan Harnad, 2014</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>All the best for your OA national legislation advocacy,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Dominique</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dra. Dominique Babini<br>* Latin America Council of Social Sciences-CLACSO/Open Access Area Coordinator <br>* University of Buenos Aires-IIGG/Open access scholarly communications researcher</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Argentina National Digital Repositories System Experts Committee <br>* UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal/Latin America Contributor<br>* International Social Science Council-ISSC/ Editor Open Access Web Resources</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=ES><a href="http://eprints.rclis.org/view/creators/Babini=3ADominique=3A=3A.html" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Publications</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mail: <a href="mailto:dasbabini@gmail.com" target="_blank">dasbabini@gmail.com</a><br>Skype: dominique.babini<br>Twitter: @dominiquebabini</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>CLACSO - Estados Unidos 1168 (C1101AAX) Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>Tel.: (54-11) 4304-9145/9505 Fax: (54-11) 4305-0875<br></span><span lang=ES><a href="http://www.clacso.org/" target="_blank"><span lang=ES-AR style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.clacso.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2014-07-01 3:45 GMT-03:00 Sridhar Gutam <<a href="mailto:gutam2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">gutam2000@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Please share your thoughts and messages with the Ministers responsible (i.e. Hon'ble PM Mr. Narendra Modi (@narendramodi <a href="https://www.facebook.com/narendramodi" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/narendramodi</a> and Hon'ble Minister HRD Ms. Smriti Z. Irani @smritiirani <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Smriti.Irani.Official" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Smriti.Irani.Official</a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks & Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sridhar</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>On behalf of Open Access India</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sridhar Gutam</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/oaindia" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://www.facebook.com/oaindia</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>; </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>; </span><a href="http://oaindia2013.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://oaindia2013.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Resources:-</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://sparceurope.org/ireland-has-announced-a-national-open-access-policy/" target="_blank">http://sparceurope.org/ireland-has-announced-a-national-open-access-policy/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/research/NationalPrinciplesOpenAccessPolicyStatement.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/research/NationalPrinciplesOpenAccessPolicyStatement.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.dst.gov.in/NDSAP.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dst.gov.in/NDSAP.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-report-2011_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-report-2011_en.pdf</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>