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Open Access in India – Timeline
1998
Pramana, the physics journal of IASc, goes open access
1999
Meeting on Public Access to Indian Geographical Data, held on 14–15 July 1999 at the Indian
Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
Mysore University, influenced by Ed Fox of Virginia Tech, planned building an ETD repository.
2000
Stevan Harnad spoke about ‘Scholarly Skywriting’ at a conference on Advances in Information
Access and Science Communication, MSSRF, Chennai, 16-17 September 2000.
2001
The Indian Academy of Sciences convened a meeting in April 2001, where it was decided to
encourage Indian S&T journal publishers to adopt electronic publishing.
2002
Two three-day workshops for editors of S&T journals were held at the Indian Institute of
Science during 8-10 and 13-15 March 2002, with Dr Leslie Chan and Ms Barbara Kirsop of
the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development as the resource persons.
India's first institutional repository, EPrints@IISc was set up by Dr T B Rajasekhar of the
National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science.
2003
A special session on open access was organized as part of the Annual General Meeting of
the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), held at the National Chemical Laboratory,
Pune.
INSA signed the Berlin Declaration.
The Indian Medlars Centre commenced hosting open access versions of many Indian
medical journals.
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