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Budapest Open Access Initiative: BOAI Forum Archive [BOAI] [Forum Home] [index] [prev] [next] [options] [help]boaiforum messages[BOAI] OA at Madurai Kamaraj University on the anvilFrom: Peter Suber <peters AT earlham.edu> [Forwarding from Subbiah Arunachalam. --Peter Suber.] PRESS RELEASE MKU to go for Open Access Mandate Open access repository for public funded research has been increasingly popular to the extent that 19th Oct 2009 - 23rd Oct 2009 was celebrated world over as Open Access Week (<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>www.openaccessweek.org). The OA week creates a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content. Open Access Repositories are part of the Open Access movement which puts peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet, making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. This removes the barriers to serious research. Moreover, the benefits of publicly funded research are made available to the larger community and do not become the property of publishing companies. What is Open Access Archive or Repository? Peter Suber, a long time advocate of Open Access, has written that extensively on Open Access (<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm>http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm) OA archives or repositories do not perform peer review, but simply make their contents freely available to the world. They may contain unrefereed preprints, refereed postprints, or both. Archives may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or disciplines, such as physics and economics. Authors may archive their preprints without anyone else's permission, and a majority of journals already permit authors to archive their postprints. When archives comply with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative, then they are interoperable and users can find their contents without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, or what they contain. There is now open-source software, such as e-prints, dspace etc for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives and worldwide momentum for using it. It has been established that open access repositories increased the visibility of the research, the scientist and the institution. Studies have shown that mandatory policies are only effective in making researchers OA compliant. Many leading Universities such as MIT, research funding agencies such as NIH have gone in for the open access mandatory policy. The ideal gold open access where publishing houses come forward to make their contents OA is a long way off. At MKU Open Access Repositories have been gaining ground in India. Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, a well known Information scientist, has been advocating Open Access Repositories for a long time. Institutions such as the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela have opened open access repositories. At Madurai Kamaraj University, an Open Access Repository (<http://eprints.bicmku.in/>http://eprints.bicmku.in ) using E-prints has ↵ been initiated at a School level and will be expanded to the whole University as part of its open access initiatives. As indicated by the Vice-Chancellor of MKU, the University plans to go for a green open access policy (<http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/>http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/). This will mandate its faculty to deposit their publicly funded research publications including student thesis, dissertations, faculty seminar presentations, journal publications into the open access repository. [BOAI] [Forum Home] [index] [prev] [next] [options] [help]
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