Thanks very much Arthur for circulating the good news. A number of countries (and institutions) are implementing open access policies and are setting up open access archives. Whatever may be the benefit to those countries and institutions, one thing is for sure. Scientists and research students in developing countries, where libraries are poor, will gain access to all these archives. And that will certainly have a beneficial impact on the science they do. Thanks once again. I am sure many vice chancellors and directors of research laboratories in India, China, Brazil, and other developing countries will take to open access soon. Recently the Indian MEDLARS centre at the National Informatic Centre in New Delhi set up OpenMED, an archive for biomedical research. We are keenly looking forward to it getting populated with papers quickly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Arthur Sale wrote:

On Thursday, I hosted a delegation of four senior people from New Zealand who were visiting Australia with a view to drawing up an OA implementation policy for New Zealand. The plan is to do a whole of country approach, covering research from the universities, the Crown research institutes, polytechnics and other sources of research. The working party will write its report shortly after its Australian visit, when it visited Queensland, the national capital Canberra, Tasmania and Australia in a week-long visit.

I understand that New Zealand has recently signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of all NZ universities. Now they are about to implement it.

Arthur Arthur Sale 127 Tranmere Road, Howrah, Tasmania 7018, AUSTRALIA Phone (03) 6247 1331 (International replace '(03)' by '+61-3-') or Mobile 04 1947 1331

Thanks very much Arthur for circulating the good news. A number of countries (and institutions) are implementing open access policies and are setting up open access archives. Whatever may be the benefit to those countries and institutions, one thing is for sure. Scientists and research students in developing countries, where libraries are poor, will gain access to all these archives. And that will certainly have a beneficial impact on the science they do. Thanks once again. I am sure many vice chancellors and directors of research laboratories in India, China, Brazil, and other developing countries will take to open access soon. Recently the Indian MEDLARS centre at the National Informatic Centre in New Delhi set up OpenMED, an archive for biomedical research. We are keenly looking forward to it getting populated with papers quickly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Arthur Sale < ahjs@OZEMAIL.COM.AU

wrote: On Thursday, I hosted a delegation of four senior people from New Zealand who were visiting Australia with a view to drawing up an OA implementation policy for New Zealand. The plan is to do a whole of country approach, covering research from the universities, the Crown research institutes, polytechnics and other sources of research. The working party will write its report shortly after its Australian visit, when it visited Queensland, the national capital Canberra, Tasmania and Australia in a week-long visit.

I understand that New Zealand has recently signed the Berlin Declaration on behalf of all NZ universities. Now they are about to implement it.   Arthur Arthur Sale    127 Tranmere Road, Howrah, Tasmania 7018, AUSTRALIA Phone (03) 6247 1331 (International replace '(03)' by '+61-3-') or Mobile 04 1947 1331