MEET on Open Access, FLOSS and Copyright Law at INSA on April 26, 2008
Brainstorming Meet On Open Access, FLOSS and Copyright Law for Scholarly Communication and Literary Work 26th April, 2008 at Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is organizing brainstorming session on the 26th of April, 2008 at its premises. The major aim of the meet is to draft the recommendations for changes in Policy and Law to the Government of India to be in tune with changing technologies in the new information era and the international developments. The meet will start at 9.30 AM on the 26th. The first session will concentrate on OA and FLOSS. Lectures by Prof Subbiah Arunachalam, Dr Sunil and Dr Sahu will be followed by a discussion on and finalization of the Recommendations for changes in Policy and Law for enabling an Indian initiative in OA and FLOSS. After a Coffee break between 11.30 AM and 12.00 Noon, there will be talks on Copyright for Scholarly Communication and Literary work by Prof N. Balakrishnan and Shri Pravin Anand. From 1.00 PM to 1.30 PM, the draft recommendations will be brainstormed and finalized. The meet will end with a Lunch. The outcome of the meet will affect you directly or indirectly. If you are a Student, Teacher, avid reader, Publisher, Scientist, Technologist, Government Employee, Policy maker, Lawyer and a concerned citizen who likes to believe in democratization of Knowledge, we need you and your inputs in shaping up the recommendations to the Government. Please register at www.insaindia.org or by sending an e-mail : publ-insa@nic.in or fax : 011-23231095. All are Welcome _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011, 9810329992 (M) Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Hello, Congratulations to the organisers of the Brainstorming Meet on Open Access, FLOSS and Copyright Law for Scholarly Communication and Literary Work. A timely meet with those who have championed of OA movement in India. However I have the following observations to make in this regard. First of all this is half a day program. Time available is just three hours if we take out 1 hour for initial remarks by concerned and tea break. There are 5 speakers. If each one takes 30 minutes on an average as there are two speakers whom every one would like to listen for long and they too usually do so. Then time left will be just 30 minutes for brainstorming. I dont think this will give fair chance to participants to take active part in the discussion. If that happens this will turnout to be a half a day symposium without yielding brainstormed recommendations. Ideally there could be one or at the most two experts who would raise issues taking 20 minutes each covering different aspects of the topic like: 1. Copyrights: Authors Vs Publishers Vs Institutions 2. Recommendations for draft legislation for Govt of India. 3. Appropriate message/appeal to Indian Authors, Institutions/Apex bodies, Funding Agencies, Professional Societies and Publishers 4. Proposal for adopting OA by Indian publishers, setting up of Institutional Repositories at all Universities, R & D Institutions, Corporate R&Ds, etc. 5. Proposal for forming the Consortia of Indian IRs and constitution of Coordination Committee for this purpose. 6. Adoption of different standards for setting up of IRs and OAJs. 7. Indian OA Statement in line with those of Budapest, Bethesda, etc. 8. Identification and setting up of an Institute for conducting regular training courses covering various aspects OA, setting up of IR etc. 9. OA as a part of regular LIS course. 10.Synergy between LIS, IT and Legal Professionals on the one side & Authors, Institutions, Funding agencies and publishers on the other side. 11.Resolution indicating Indian stand on Foreign Publishers both Commercial and Societies. 12.Urging the need get copyright permission to upload the final version of journal articles to IRs at the time of manuscript submission, Consortial/Institutional Subscription of journals. We need to have this sort of Brainingstorming meeting in different parts of the country and also individual Universities and other R & D Institutions. Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Sangeeta Kaul wrote:
Brainstorming Meet On Open Access, FLOSS and Copyright Law for Scholarly Communication and Literary Work
26th April, 2008
at Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is organizing brainstorming session on the 26th of April, 2008 at its premises. The major aim of the meet is to draft the recommendations for changes in Policy and Law to the Government of India to be in tune with changing technologies in the new information era and the international developments.
The meet will start at 9.30 AM on the 26th. The first session will concentrate on OA and FLOSS. Lectures by Prof Subbiah Arunachalam, Dr Sunil and Dr Sahu will be followed by a discussion on and finalization of the Recommendations for changes in Policy and Law for enabling an Indian initiative in OA and FLOSS.
After a Coffee break between 11.30 AM and 12.00 Noon, there will be talks on Copyright for Scholarly Communication and Literary work by Prof N. Balakrishnan and Shri Pravin Anand. From 1.00 PM to 1.30 PM, the draft recommendations will be brainstormed and finalized. The meet will end with a Lunch.
The outcome of the meet will affect you directly or indirectly. If you are a Student, Teacher, avid reader, Publisher, Scientist, Technologist, Government Employee, Policy maker, Lawyer and a concerned citizen who likes to believe in democratization of Knowledge, we need you and your inputs in shaping up the recommendations to the Government. Please register at www.insaindia.org or by sending an e-mail : publ-insa@nic.in or fax : 011-23231095.
All are Welcome
_______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011, 9810329992 (M) Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________
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I.R.N.Goudar -
Sangeeta Kaul