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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Dr. Poornima

Last name: Narayana

Organization/institution name: National Aerospace Laboratories

Type of institution: Other Research

What's your position?: Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: High

What are your goals for OA Week?: Council of Scientific & Industrial research (CSIR) one of the premier institutions engaged in R&D activities in different aspects of S&T has adopted OA policy with a few mandates, the major being to make its journls OA and to set up interoperable Institutional Repositories (IR) at all its 37 labs with a central harvester. A high level 5 member expert committee has been constituted to frame policies, guidelines and other related issues. I am also a member of this experts' committee.
We are celebrating the International OA week during 24th to 30th October 2011 by way of putting up promotional posters, Road shows on 'OA', play video clips and have arranged effective Lectures by Prof. Balarama, a top Indian Scientist and Director of India's most prestigious institution, The Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Balarama has been advocating OA policies and is on the editorial board of National and International Journal Committees.
You can give some more inputs to celebrate this effective concept.

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'International Open Access Day' at CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore, India

The ‘International Open Access Day’ was celebrated at S R Valluri Auditorium in CSIR-NAL on October 24 2011 in commemoration with the ‘International Open Access Week’. This global event in its 4th year is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share what they have learned from professional colleagues, and to help inspire in wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in…

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Posted on November 14, 2011 at 5:23pm