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Second Open Access Day

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:44 — oksadmin

October 14, 2008, is the second Open Access Day. On this occasion Open Access Week is also being celebrated during October 19-23, 2009 to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access

SPARC has released Open Access 101 Animated video explaining open access to research and why it's important. This 3-minute is available to view or download free at http://vimeo.com/6973160

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

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.

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.

Preparations for New Baby

Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:26 — sridhar

Dear OKS Members,

Thank you all for the support extended to us (NRCMAP). Now the baby is going to be born shortly! The latest entry into the Open Access Journals from Agriculture field is going to be from NRCMAP. We are going to register a society in the name of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India and is going to publish first Open Access Journal form ICAR institute on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Wish us all the best. The tile of the Journal shall be 'Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants OAJMAP' Hope to receive the support for its successful launch.

Events on Open Access Day

Mon, 10/06/2008 - 12:31 — sridhar

Lets share the events about Open Access Day which are going to be held by us.

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 Issue of OAJMAP Published

Sat, 01/23/2010 - 10:35 — sridhar

Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants has just published its
latest issue at http://www.ojs.oksociety.in/index.php/oajmap. The papers will be added and published till 30th June 2010 in this first issue.

Congratulations to the Editor-in-Chief, all the members of Editorial Board and members of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India.

Open Knowledge Society is proud to support MAPAI/OAJMAP for its journal publication.

Dr. Sridhar Gutam
Scientist (Plant Physiology)
Unit of Simulation and Informatics
IARI, Pusa, New Delhi 110012

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