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Two institutional repositories launched: Cochin University of Science and Technology
and Madurai Kamaraj Univeristy.
2009
A memorandum was sent by CSIR headquarters to directors of all 37 CSIR laboratories
on 6 February 2009 requesting them to set up institutional open access repositories in
each one of the laboratories.
The Centre for Internet and Society was represented by the authors of this report at the
International Repositories Workshop jointly hosted by JISC, UKOLN and SURF Foundation
and held at Amsterdam.
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and CSIR jointly hosted a one-day conference on
open access, in Delhi, which was attended by over 100 participants. Prof. John Willinsky
of the Public Knowledge Project, and Dr Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, were the
key speakers.
CIS and NAL jointly hosted a one-day conference at NAL, Bangalore, where Prof.
Balaram moderated a discussion and Sunil Abraham spoke about copyright and open access.
The Wellcome Trust and DBT formed an Alliance to support outstanding Indian biomedical
scientists with fellowships. All fellows are required to make the research outputs
open access.
I0 more repositories launched: University of Kashmir, Institute of Minerals and Materials
Technology, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation,
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Central Drug Research
Institute, ICRISAT institutional Repository and two electronic theses and dissertations
repository from NIT Rourkela and CSIR.
ICRISAT Mandated open access to local research outputs through institutional repository.
2010
Six repositories were launched: Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Delhi Technological
University, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment and a subject repository
OpenAgri from ICAR.
NIO Goa mandated open access to all institutional research outputs
2011
UNESCO–CIS Seminar on Open Access March 2011, New Delhi
Two repositories: Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (Also mandated open access
to lnstititutional research outputs) and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
This report will be submitted to CIS
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