---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: OA Week From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> Date: Sun, August 20, 2017 10:24 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends: The Open Access Week is only a few weeks away. IISc Students are planning to celebrate the Week with many impactful activities. I am sure there are other institutions with similar plans. One simple goal that we can achieve easily is to create awareness about the tremendous advantages of adopting open access. IISc students might wish to get in touch with the students councils of other institutions in the country and start talking about national level plans for celebrating the OA Week. The next step is to persuade all faculty and all students to place their postprints in an institutional or central repository such as arXiv, bioRxiv, and chemRxiv. Each group of students can come up with their own plans. It would be good if we keep sharing what each one of us is doing. Another important issue the students could discuss is the need for universal adoption of ORCID iD (the unique name identifier for all researchers). I want to share something I read recently. One is about a study carried out by a group led by Mr Arul George Scaria of the National Law University, Delhi, and the other a news report in the *Hindu*. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/08/16/survey-findings-sug... http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/01/24/embedding-open-scie... Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>