eMail from Mr Subbiah Arunachalam dated August 14, 2008. This may be of great interest to all Open Access enthusiasts, particularly in the S&T field:
Friends:
NIH has mandated open access to all research it funds. Now a taskforce appointed by NSF has recommended open access to be followed consistently by all US government agencies. Six of the seven research councils in the UK have mandated open access. It is high time that Indian funding agencies mandate open access to all research supported by them. Equally imporant is that the Indian funding agencies should stop Indian researchers giving away all rights to the published papers (resulting from work supported by the Indian taxpayers) to journal publishers. In the US research papers written by scientists working in US government laboratories are UNCOPYRIGHTABLE. We should follow this example in India.
I am recommending mandating open access not because the American and British funding agecies have adopted it. But because of the tremendous benefits OA can bring.
Best wishes.
Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
NIH has mandated open access to all research it funds. Now a taskforce appointed by NSF has recommended open access to be followed consistently by all US government agencies. Six of the seven research councils in the UK have mandated open access. It is high time that Indian funding agencies mandate open access to all research supported by them. Equally imporant is that the Indian funding agencies should stop Indian researchers giving away all rights to the published papers (resulting from work supported by the Indian taxpayers) to journal publishers. In the US research papers written by scientists working in US government laboratories are UNCOPYRIGHTABLE. We should follow this example in India.
I am recommending mandating open access not because the American and British funding agecies have adopted it. But because of the tremendous benefits OA can bring.
Best wishes.
Subbiah Arunachalam
Grateful thanks to Mr.Subbiah Arunachalam.
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