RE: Publicly funded research

[Subbiah Arunachalam <arun@mssrf.res.in>]

Friends:

Close to three-fourths of investment in scientific research in India comes
from the Government - through different departments such as the Department
of Science and Technology, the Department of Biotechnology, the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research, and the University Grants commission.
The Heads of these departments could insist that all those who receive
funds for research from them should publish their finding in open access
journals (such as Current Science in India, which is absolutely free on
the Web). The question is 'Will they?'

What is surprising is that the scientists of the world, who are presumably
'scientific' while performing their research do not seem to be
'scientific' when it comes to disseminating their findings. We need more
Stevan Harnads, Peter Subers and Leslie Chans to talk ceaselessly about
the advantages of the open access system till a vast majority of the
world's scientists are converted!

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]

-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Morrison [mailto:hmorrison@ola.bc.ca]
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 1:31 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Publicly funded research


Although the U.S. government no doubt has the most clout in this area,
there's nothing to stop those of us in other countries from encouraging
our own governments to take similar measures...

a personal view by,

Heather Grace Morrison
Email:  hmorrison@ola.bc.ca