The Director General of the Institute, William Dar, in a statement made available to PANA here, said the OA mandate would further enhance the profile of the institute through improved citations to published scientific work.
“Our Institute’s Green OA Mandate is in keeping with our guiding principle of de veloping international public goods, and it will further demonstrate the public value, and social and economic relevance of ICRISAT’s research," Dar said.
The statement said the OA repository of ICRISAT could be accessed at http://open access.icrisat.org. while most of ICRISAT’s print publications can be accessed at http://books.icrisat.org.
ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru, India.
According to the registry on global OA initiatives maintained by the University of Southampton in United Kingdom, ICRISAT is among the earliest agricultural research institute to declare the Green Mandate.
The University of Southampton maintains the database which is called Roarmap.
The spiraling journal subscription costs have impacted the availability of critical research information to researchers across the globe.
In the current global economic scenario, even institutions in developed countries find it difficult to meet increasing journal subscription costs.
Since the beginning of this decade, the open access movement has sprung up with roots in many developed countries.
Champions of the OA movement believe that in spite of publisher-mandated copyright restrictions, authors of scientific and scholarly papers have the fullest freedom to share their findings with their peer community.
Lagos - 31/05/2009
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