Dear Professionals and Friends, The Current Science issue dated 10 Aug 2008 carries an interesting opinion article authored by Ms. Suvarsha, former NCSI trainee and presently working for HP Labs. The title of the article is, The dynamics of open access publishing and is accessible at: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/contents.htm The same issue has an interesting editorial by Prof. Balaram, Director, IISc - Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change and Geoengineering - accessible at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug102008/291.pdf and a commentary on "South-South cooperation: The case of Indo-Chinese collaboration in scientific research" by Subbiah Arunachalam and B. Viswanathan accessible at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug102008/311.pdf The content page of the said issue is accessible at: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/contents.htm With best regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc Bengaluru