National Open Access Policy of India (Proposal in Draft)

gutam2000 commented 6 years ago

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Submission name: National Open Access Policy of India (Proposal in Draft) Contact lead: Sridhar Gutam gutam2000@gmail.com Issue area: #OpenAccess Region: #Asia Issue Type: #Project Types of Support Needed: #Advocacy_and_Policy, Policy refinement Project Website: https://github.com/gutam2000/oapolicy

Description

A draft ‘National Open Access Policy’ for India was prepared to be submitted to: Ministries Human Resource Development and Science & Technology, Government of India on 14th February, 2017, the 15th anniversary of the BOAI (Budapest open access Initiative). However we have not heard anything from the ministries. So again we want to re-submit it after improving it further.

What are we working on during the do-a-thon? What kinds of support do we need?

We want the policy to be refined (legally) as it is going to be submitted to the Government for its consideration.

How can others contribute?

The policy is archived here at Zenodo https://zenodo.org/record/1002618 and is available for editing and suggesting at the Google doc <https://goo.gl/ktSZRT. Please edit and update it legally.

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gutam2000 commented 6 years ago

Also look at the SAARC OA Charter and help in its refinement. https://github.com/gutam2000/oapolicy/blob/master/saarc_oa

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

Some ideas worth considering based on the OA policy of the Wikimedia Foundation:

It covers not just publications, but associated data, software and multimedia;
It stresses the importance of open licensing, which facilitates and broadens the scope of reuse;
It is itself available under an open license, so it can easily be adapted (e.g. translated);
It avoids embargo periods (which most other policies allow for), and instead allows for limited exceptions;
The exceptions are to be documented in public, which helps to collect data on the necessity for exceptions and can inform later refinements of the policy.

For background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-25/News_and_notes .

matg20 commented 6 years ago

Open Access experience around Europe e.g. Netherlands http://openaccess.nl/en OECD documents http://www.oecd.org/science/ https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/

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