Dear all, An article in the previous issue of Current Science is also interesting for library professionals and those interested in Open Access (OA) Movement. Scientific publishing: Rising cost of monopolies by Giridhar Madras http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul252008/163.pdf There is strong advocacy for the OA institutinal repositories, but lesser support for OA journals. This article gives a good reason as to why we need to be promoting OA journals as well. Thank you, Suvarsha --- On Thu, 8/21/08, Francis Jayakanth <franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:

From: Francis Jayakanth <franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Interesting articles in the latest Current Science issue To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 12:59 AM 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

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