Amulya Gopalakrishnan reports at IndiaExpress.com an open access conference occurred recently in India. The details are regarding the conference are sparse, but the article does provide an update on open access in India. From the article:
Now, after years of weary negotiation, and empowered by new digital infrastructure, universities are teaming up via free institutional repository systems, to pool and circulate their collective research. In India, institutes like NIT Rourkela have adopted super-archives like DSpace for another reason — to showcase their scientific output to global peers. “NIT doesn’t have the research legacy of IIT or IISC — they needed the visibility,” says NIT director Sunil Kumar Sarangi.
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