International Open Access Week 2011 Celebrated “Departments should take initiatives to set up institutional repositories”- Prof. Shabahat Husain, Librarian-in-charge Department of Library and Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University celebrated International Open Access Week 2011 by conducting a panel discussion on Open Access Movement on 31st Oct. 2011. International Open Access Week, the annual event celebrating the global movement towards Open Access (OA) to research and scholarship, kicked off for the fifth time on Monday, October 24. The panel discussion on Open Access on the auspicious of International Open Access Week was got off with recitation from the Holy Quran. Dr. Naushad Ali P.M, Programme Coordinator and Chairman of Department gave an introduction about the open access movement and its 5th celebration of International Open Access Week 2011. Prof. Shabahat Husain, Librarian-in-Charge, M.A Library, AMU inaugurated the panel discussion. During the inaugural speech Prof. Shabahat Husain insisted that all departments in the university should take initiative to congregate the publication of teachers and research scholars of the department and put it on institutional repository on open access mode. He appreciated the efforts made by the Department holding such a wonderful discussion on such a novel theme of the time. For the benefit of larger community, he also demanded to take efforts in the direction of creating repository of the publication of the whole academic staff of the University. He also mentioned the endeavor he had taken to download more than two lakhs e-books in Maulana Azad Library and to inform the faculty members of the University to utilize the opportunity during the e-book fair at free of cost. Before handing over the podium to the discussion, Programme Coordinator and Chairman of the Department Dr. Naushad Ali P.M proudly announced that the Department will soon release an Intuitional repository of publication of teachers of Aligarh Muslim University called “Knowledge Garden”. He further informed that the Department could download more than one hundred e-theses related to library and information field during the fair. The panel discussion aimed to provide a platform to discuss and share different aspects of open access and its issues and challenges in the present era. Dr. Sudharma Haridasan, Associate Professor, took the lead playing the role of moderator of the discussion. The panelists were Mr. Shibu K M, Mr. Mohamed Musthafa K, Mr. Jafar Iqbal, Mr. Sheikh Imran, Mr. Muzamil Mushtaq and Mrs. Shazia Khan of the Department of Library and Information Science. Coordinator Dr. Naushad Ali extended vote of thanks. The program brought to a close with refreshment arranged in the department. (Dr. Naushad Ali P.M) Chairman Dept. of Lib. & Info. Sc. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.