From OPEN ACCESS NEWS blog - CSIR asks its labs to adopt Open Access

According to OPEN ACCESS NEWS blog -
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/02/india-csir-asks-its-labs-to-adopt-oa.html
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Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has recommended its
laboratories adopt Open Access.

..."From the memorandum of Naresh Kumar, Head of CSIR's R&D Planning
Division, to the directors of all CSIR labs (and others), February 6,
2009:

CSIR is pleased to approve the implementation of the following
recommendations of the "Group for Open Access to Science Publications
(GOASP) of CSIR":

1. All research papers published from all CSIR laboratories be
made open access either by depositing the full-text and the metadata
of each paper in an institutional repository or by publishing the
papers in an open access journal in the first place.
2. All the CSIR published journals to be made open access.
3. Each laboratory sets up its own interoperable institutional
open access repository.
4. CSIR / lab sets up one or more centre(s) which would harvest
the full-text and metadata of these papers.
5. Each laboratory sets up Electronic Thesis and Dissertations
Repository.
6. To hold a conference for creating awareness on Open Access.
7. To hold in house Training programmes on Open Access.
8. Sensitize CSIR researchers.

It is requested that the above Open Access activities are
implemented at the earliest."..