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Permalink Reply by Dr. Badan Barman on September 15, 2017 at 22:05

Sir,

You have raised a very important point. We should have a policy regarding this and the research funding agency can think of making it mandatory for the researcher to submit their research findings in open access platforms or they can even think of releasing the copy submitted to them in the Open Access platform.

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Permalink Reply by Anand Dodamani on September 17, 2017 at 18:30

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your comments.

Regards,

Anand Dodamani

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Permalink Reply by Ramesh Yernagula on September 17, 2017 at 18:00

Yes Dr. Annad Point is very true. ICHR's documentation Centre has initiated in the same direction for the following reasons. and the Portal name is DHARA(Digital Historical Academic Repository Access). Hope other institutes may also follows this kind of work. This portal will be officialy released by end of this month

Enhance visibility of the output of various Grants awarded by the ICHR • Provide a global platform for the Council research and improved its visibility • Facilities improved research collaboration and information flow • Preserves and provides log-term access to the scholars research output a; • Lower access barriers and offers the widest possible dissemination of an individual scholars' work.

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Permalink Reply by Anand Dodamani on September 17, 2017 at 18:28

Dear Sir,

Thank you for the comments. Let's hope that the other sponsoring bodies would also follow ICHR in future.

Regards,

Anand Dodamani

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on October 8, 2017 at 21:42

Dear Sri Anand Dodamani,

Thanks for addressing a very important issue. As a retired employee of ICSSR Institute I would like to share that there are three types of Research Reports generated by the ICSSR funded Institutes: (a) Working papers , (b) Projects Funded by External Agencies & (c) Projects of ICSSR itself.

Regarding the first type, they are generally not copy righted and for the new Working papers, soft copies are OFTEN (Not on regular basis) launched in the Institutes' websites. For the second types of Research materials, approval from the Funding Agencies are customarily required as the end reports become their properties. For ICSSR Projects (especially for Doctoral Research) the Researchers try to publish them as books and as the manuscripts are accepted by any publisher they make sure whether they are launched as open sources simply because it harms their marketability. In my institute I have taken initiative to launch all of our Working Papers through BLDS, UK. Now one very well-known Publisher expressed their interest to publish a collection of the Working Papers but as they discovered that they are available as a open source material, they lost interest!!

Admittedly, ICSSR Headquarters has no provision (& Vision too; unfortunately) to launch such important materials in public domain. There is one Asian Documentation Centre at the ICSSR Head Quarters at Aruna Asaf Ali Marg and it holds several highly costly reprographic and Desk Top Publishing & Printing  equipments laying un-utilized over the years!! and surprisingly nobody bothers!! Majority of the senior Officials at the ICSSR HQ are retired staff of the HQ itself and above all, the budget allocation of ICSSR is pathetically poor.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta 

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