Author
Subbiah Arunachalam
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29 Oct 2016
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work PublishedWe raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 …
28 Oct 2016
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Adopting ORCID as a Unique Identifier will Benefit all Involved in Scholarly CommunicationORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a nonprofit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these …
1 Jan 2015
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Intransigenc of STM PublishersA few commercial publishers dominate provision of access to scientific and technical information sought after by researchers around the world. Increasing subscription prices of journals at rates higher than general inflation caused …
26 Sep 2013
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Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the GlobeResearchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.
28 May 2013
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Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their FindingsMost of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all …
27 May 2013
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Use of Open Access Journals by Indian ResearchersIndian researchers have published more than 43,400 papers in over 4,600 journals in 2009 as seen from Science Citation Index (SCI) – Expanded. Of these, over 6,900 (or one in six) papers are published in 445 open access (OA) journals. The …
9 May 2012
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Cancel the SubscriptionIt has been a slow but steady move to make scholarship freely available, writes Prof. Arunachalam in an article published by the Indian Express on May 8, 2012.
27 Jul 2011
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Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report: Call for CommentsThe Centre for Internet and Society welcomes comments on the first draft of "Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report". This report, on open access to scholarly literature, with a special focus on scientific literature, …
5 May 2011
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Q&A on open access with Subbiah Arunachalam of the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore)Amrit Dhir, a 1L at Harvard Law School, has been working with the Harvard Law School Library on open access activities. He recently had an opportunity to interview Subbiah Arunachalam of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in India. …
18 Feb 2011
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Withdrawal of Journal Access is a Wake-up Call for Researchers in the Developing WorldGuest blog by Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam (Trustees for the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development). This article was published in Speaking of Medicine PLoS Medicine community blog on January 17, 2011.
24 May 2010
News
A letter to CGIAR in support of Open AccessProfessor Subbiah Arunachalam wrote a letter to CGIAR apprising them of the need for, and advantages of making their research output Open Access.