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2004
MSSRF organized two three-day workshops on setting up institutional repositories using
EPrints software with the help of Dr Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, Dr
Leslie Chan, Dr D K Sahu, and Dr T B Rajasekhar.
The birth of three other Indian repositories: Librarians Digital Library, the first DSpacebased
repository of India; and the repositories of National Aerospace Laboratories and
Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
2005
The birth of six other repositories - Electronic theses repository of IISc, OpenMed@NIC
, Raman Research Institute Digital Repository, National Institute of Technology
Rourkela, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode.
2006
Alma Swan spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Indian Science Congress Association
held at Hyderabad. Also, she met a small group at ICRISAT and spoke about the advantages
of open access institutional repositories
Informatics India launched Open J Gate.
International workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access was held in Bangalore.
A national policy document for developing countries that could be used by governments
or their science-funding organizations to speed up the scientific progress was produced
at the end of the workshop.
NIT Rourkela mandated open access to local research output.
National Knowledge Commission recommended Open Access.
Four more repositories: Indhira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, National Institute
of Oceanography, INFLIBNET and National Institute of Antarctic and Ocean Research.
2007
Two more repositories: National Centre for Catalysis Research and Vidhyanidhi, electronic
theses and dissertation repository.
2008
All 17 journals published by National Institute of Science Communication and Information
Research (NISCAIR) became open access .
Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) was launched.
INSA convened a half-day brainstorming meet on open access, FOSS and copyright law
for scholarly communication and literary work on 26 April 2008.
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