Dear all, Involving the Library Associations to advocate for the adoption of standardized good practices in implementation of the open access in our Indian University libraries appear to be an encouraging initiative. But given the mind set-up of our University Administrators it is highly unlikely that Open Access movement will be voluntarily accepted. In the Indian context, UGC may be impressed upon to get the Open Access practices implemented through INFLIBNET by asking the Universities to establish facilities like Institutional Repositories, general as well as Subject specific E-Resources Consortiums, Consortiums of ETD, etc. However, many Universities may need both financial as well as technical support in order to fulfill the obligations of institutionalized Open Access. Regards Dr. T. SHAHAB HMS Central Library Jamia Hamdard (New Delhi) -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of G Mahesh Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:20 PM To: LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] IFLA Open Access Taskforce established
From IFLA's webpage: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-open-access-taskforce-established
11 October 2011 IFLA Open Access Taskforce established By Lars Bjørnshauge Following the endorsement of IFLA's Statement on Open Access by the Governing Board, April 18th 2011-and the subsequent approval from the Governing Board during the WLIC in Puerto Rico August 2011 of a number of key initiatives-IFLA's Open Access Taskforce has been established. The taskforce will work on the following issues: Advocate for the adoption and promotion of open access policies as set out in IFLA's Statement on Open Access within the framework of the United Nations institutions (UN, UNESCO, WHO, FAO); Build Capacity within the IFLA Membership to advocate for the adoption of open access policies at the national level, through the development of case studies and best practices for open access promotion; Furthermore the taskforce will connect to the various organizations working for Open Access - as indicated in the statement -such as SPARC (US/Europe/Japan), COAR, OASPA,EIFL, Bioline International & DOAJ, among others. First things to be done is to produce a road map for the work to presented for the IFLA Governing Board in December and as well to begin collecting case studies and best practice related to how national library associations can promote national policies and programs to further foster the progress of Open Access. Please inform me if you have good examples in relation to this. In cooperation with the IFLA Headquarters dedicated web pages will be created in order for the community to be able to follow and contribute to the work. The taskforce has the following members: Lars Bjørnshauge (CHAIR), 1st Vice-President, Swedish Library Association Leslie Chan, Associate Director, Bioline International, University of Toronto at Scarborough Jan Hagerlid, Programme Co-ordinator of OpenAccess.se, National Library of Sweden Iryna Kuchma, EIFL.Net Open Access Manager, EIFL, Rome, Italy Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, Emory University, USA Felipe Martinez, Director, University Center for Library Science Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico Bas Savenijie, Director, National Library of the Netherlands Xuemao Wang, Associate Vice-Provost, Emory University Libraries, Emory University, USA Qiang Zhu, Director, Peking University Library, Beijing, China Ann Okerson, Special Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries New Haven, CT, United States Derek Law, Professor, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom Lars Bjørnshauge ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.