[LIS-Forum] Open Access : Science and Scholarship in India

Thu Dec 29 14:57:44 IST 2005

Dear Colleagues, 

  Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina,  for a talk on "Open Access".  We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit

  Thank you, Smita--

  Talk on

  "Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India"

  by

  Dr.Alma Swan
  (Director, Key Perspectives, UK)

  at

  Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library
   University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E), 
  Mumbai 400 096

  from 

  03.30 PM to 05.30 PM
                                      (Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions) 

  Contact : Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042)  
                 (rajhansa at yahoo.com) 

     Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070
     (ravija_srivastava at yahoo.com)

     Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, QMed Services Pvt.Ltd.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223
     & 9867292230 (vasu at qmedin.com)

     Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, Medknow Publications, Mumbai            . Ph. 022-5649181 

  Summary of the Talk

  Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future.
  About the Speaker –
  Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 

  has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology.
              She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at www.keyperspectives.co.uk.

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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below an invitation from the LIS Department, University of Mumbai, Kalina,
 for a talk on "Open Access".  We request you to please find time for this very interesting talk by a renowned speaker on the subject. We also request you to kindly forward this mail/message to your scientific community, and others who might be interested or benefit

Thank you, Smita--

Talk on

"
Open Access: What it can do for science and scholarship in India
"

by

Dr.Alma Swan
(
Director, Key Perspectives, UK
)

at

Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library

University of Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz (E),
Mumbai 400 096

from

03.30 PM to 05.30 PM

(Free for those interested. Lecture followed by discussions)

Contact
: Mrs.Rajhans, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph. 022-26526679 (989232042)

( mailto:rajhansa at yahoo.com rajhansa at yahoo.com
)

Ms.Ravija Srivastava, LIS Department, University of Mumbai. Ph.:981932070

( mailto:ravija_srivastava at yahoo.com ravija_srivastava at yahoo.com
)

Ms.Vasumati Sriganesh, Director, http://www.qmedin.com/ QMed Services Pvt.Ltd
.,Mumbai. Ph.022-28229223

& 9867292230 ( mailto:vasu at qmedin.com vasu at qmedin.com
)

Dr.D.K.Sahu, Director, http://www.medknow.com/ Medknow Publications
, Mumbai

. Ph. 022-5649181

Summary of the Talk

Open access to research findings is the most effective means to enhance the communication, discussion and use of the outputs of scholarly endeavor. Scholars' findings have traditionally been largely locked away from all but the lucky few whose libraries were able to purchase expensive journals. Now the World Wide Web has made it possible for scholars to share their results, ideas and inspirations on a truly worldwide basis, whilst still preserving the best of the traditional way of publishing their results - high-quality peer review and editing procedures. Open Access is the great equalizer when it comes to scholarly communication. Dr. Alma Swan shall describe the ways to achieve Open Access, what advantages it brings to scholars and scientists in all parts of the world and what it can do for India's own scholarship and science now and in the foreseeable future.
About the Speaker
–
Dr. Alma Swan obtained a first class
honours
degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a
Pergamon
Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996 she jointly founded Key Perspectives. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, Alma retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA
programme
and since 1991

has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA
programme
. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology.

She is currently an independent consultant on scholarly communication issues and has been working on projects concerned with Open Access to the research literature for several years now, carrying out original research, writing reports and articles and giving many presentation. All her publicly available work can be found in the Open Access Archive on her organization's website at
http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk
.
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