<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div id="m_-4517796239421969557divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On the the occasion of <b><font color="#9900ff">International Open Access Week 2019</font></b>, We are pleased to invite you to an engaging lecture
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<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#0000ff">Prof. VijayRaghavan</font></span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#0000ff"> </font>FRS</span><u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India</span><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">India’s March towards Open Access to Knowledge: Challenges, Initiatives, and Policy Interventions</span></b><br></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date & Time</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: 25 October 2019,
Friday, 4.00 to 5.30 pm (High Tea: 5.30 pm)</span><u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Biological Sciences
Auditorium, IISc, Bengaluru, India</span><u></u></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The session will be chaired by</span><u></u></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Ajay K Sood</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> FRS</span><u></u><u></u></font></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">President of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Honorary Professor at Indian Institute of Science</span></font></p><p style="line-height:105%"><font size="4"><u></u></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;line-height:105%"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Kindly, RSVP here:
<a href="https://bit.ly/2J753Mt" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2J753Mt</a></b></span><u></u><u></u></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Open Access seeks to return scholarly publishing to its original purpose: to spread knowledge and
allow that knowledge to be built upon. Price barriers should not prevent students, researchers (or anyone) from getting access to research they need. Open Access, and the open availability and searchability of scholarly research that it entails, will have
a significant positive impact on everything from education to the practice of medicine to the ability of entrepreneurs to innovate.
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<p style="line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" target="_blank"><span style="background:white">International Open Access Week</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">
(October 21-27, 2019) is a global, community-driven week of action to open access to research and knowledge in general. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations across the world and its organization is led by a global advisory
committee. This is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress to build more equitable foundations for opening knowledge.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This event is jointly organized by the Centre for Society and Policy, The DST-Centre for Policy Research and JRD
Tata Memorial Library at IISc. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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