[LIS-Forum] 12th Annual Lecture on Informatics & Launch of Open J-Gate

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Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalore, Cordially invites you to the

12th Annual Lecture on Informatics & Launch of Open J-gate

Date & Time: February 27, 2006,  5.45pm to 7.45pm

Venue: The Auditorium, Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar
Marg, New Delhi 110 002

Dinner: 8.00 pm

Speakers:

Dr. Jean-Claude Guedon,
Professor, University of Montreal, Canada
OSI Information Program Sub-Board member

Beyond Plutocracy: Open Access to globalize scientific communication

Prof. V N Rajasekharan Pillai
Vice Chairman,  University Grants Commission, New Delhi

Open Access: Researchers’ Perspective


Presided by
Dr R A Mashelkar
Director-General, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research and,
Secretary, Dept of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi


Open J-Gate Launch
by
Prof. Jean Claude Guedon

Launching Open J-Gate www.openj-gate.com


J-Gate (www.J-gate.informindia.co.in) is an e-journal portal for scholarly,
research and professional journals. It is a searchable database of index to
articles published in 13,800+ e-journals.  Every article in J-gate is linked
to full-text.  All major institutions - IITs, IIMs, ICMR Labs, and
Universities use J-Gate and its customized solutions for accessing journal
literature through Internet.

Open J-Gate

The J-Gate coverage includes over 2,500-open access journals.  About 1,500
of these are peer-reviewed research journals.  J-Gate is the only service in
the world to index articles from the largest number of open access journals.

Responding to the Open Access movement in the world for scholarly and
research literature, Informatics is launching Open J-Gate as a separate free
portal to access open access literature.  Currently Open J-Gate has indexed
over a million articles published since 2001.  Informatics plans to go back
in coverage to all available years for these 2,500+ journals.

As the portal  name suggests, access to Open J-Gate is free to all students
and researchers.  Informatics is proud to launch and dedicate Open J-Gate as
India’s contribution to the cause of promoting global science communication.


(The support of Open Society Institute, New York, USA Is gratefully
acknowledged)



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N V Sathyanarayana
Chairman & Managing Director
Informatics (India) Ltd
Bangalore 560 003
sathya at informindia.co.in
www.informindia.co.in