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Elsevier published 6 fake journals

Sun, 05/10/2009 - 14:56 — sanjo

Scientific publisher Elsevier admitted it has brought out six "journals" between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and looked like peer-reviewed journals.

Statement From Michael Hansen, CEO of Elsevier's Health Sciences Division, regarding the issue can be accessed from its official website

The fraud was brought out to light by The Australian.

In search of New Software!!!

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 15:56 — sridhar

The project on E-Publishing and Knowledge System in Agricultural Research (EPKSAR) is developing a software for the e-journal publications, production, archival for the communication link among information generators i.e. public research organizations, and its users. Does this case is an example of reinventing the wheel for the sake of rights on the IP created? Though Human Genome Project is in Public Domain, there are many Patents on it by some Private firms.

Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India

Sun, 12/28/2008 - 22:19 — sridhar

Dear Friends,

Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India (MAPAI) is formally launched on its date of registration 24th December 2008. The MAPAI has its registered office at National Research Centre for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (NRCMAP), Boriavi, Anand 387310, Gujarat. Shortly it is going to publish Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromtic Plants from the Server of OKS.

Wish MAPAI best of luck.

Happy Open New Year 2009.

Sridhar

Portal for repository news

Tue, 12/09/2008 - 00:05 — nagaraj

Repositories Worldwide is a portal which highlights the recent updates and news releases of repository software Eprints, Dspace, Fedora etc. and the latest personal postings from individual and project blogs.

Source: Open Access News [Peter Suber]

Free Software, Free Society

Sun, 11/30/2008 - 11:17 — sanjo

Second International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture starts on 9th December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram.

Many celebrities of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Access (OA) movements will make their presence in this conference. To name a few of them are Richard Matthew Stallman, Jimmy Wales, Eben Moglen, Subbiah Arunachalam and Adam Arvidsson. The Conference will have three tracks - Technology, Culture and Policy. Some of the highlights of the event are Install Fest and Repository, Copy Left - Open Access, Open Movie Fest, Malayalam Computing, Scientific Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled.

My experience as the editor of an open access agricultural science journal

Mon, 11/24/2008 - 20:44 — bmkumar

Dear OKS members,

As some of you may know, Journal of Tropical Agriculture (JTA) published by the Kerala Agricultural University is the first agricultural science journal in India with an online editorial system. Although JTA has been published since 1961 as a print version (initially as “Agricultural Research Journal of Kerala”), it went online only in 2006 making all volumes starting from 2001 open access (please visit http://www.jtropag.in/index.php/ojs). Our project for online publishing was supported by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), New Delhi under the “Technology Information Facilitation Programme (TIFP)”. Technical assistance was provided by the SJPI project of the National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Open access to knowledge need of times: Punjabi

Fri, 10/31/2008 - 23:42 — nagaraj

Kashmir University vice-chancellor, Prof Reyaz Punjabi's views on Open Access. He was speaking at the inaugural function of the 3-day seminar titled "Open Access Movement: Initiatives, Promotion and Impact" organized by the varsity's department of Library and Information Sciences. He insisted that there is a need to sensitize students and scholars about the "Open Access Movement".

Read more about this story at http://www.risingkashmir.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=7752

Rising Kashmir,
English Daily

Berlin 6 Open Access Conference, 11-13 November 2008

Tue, 10/28/2008 - 19:05 — satish

Five years ago, researchers from a wide range of disciplines came together to draft the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, which stressed the significance of unrestricted access to research results via the Internet for the future of academic publishing.

Software Freedom Day - 20th September 2008

Fri, 09/19/2008 - 15:56 — nagaraj

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!

First Open Access Day

Sat, 09/13/2008 - 20:17 — nagaraj

October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day.

The founding partners are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.

Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public.

Sources: www.openaccessday.org

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