Friends: Here is some good news for OAA supporters around the world. The world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, has just adopted and registered its Open Access Policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Over 40,000 of CERN's research articles is now OA, and this will soon approach 100% http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdsweb.cern.ch%2F The policy is temporarily available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf When will Indian universities, IITs, NITs and national labs set up their OA archives. Let us make 2005 the year of open access archives in India. Best wishes. Arun Friends:   Here is some good news for OAA supporters around the world.   The world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, has just adopted and registered its Open Access Policy at:     http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php     http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Over 40,000 of CERN's research articles is now OA, and this will soon approach 100%     http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdsweb.cern.ch%2F The policy is temporarily available at:     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf   When will Indian universities, IITs, NITs and national labs set up their OA archives. Let us make 2005 the year of open access archives in India.   Best wishes.   Arun