The critical role of repositories in providing access to research
New Delhi, India – April 17-18, 2024
Bi-annually, COAR and a local Asian host organize a meeting to support information sharing and collaboration on open access and open science across Asian countries. This is part of the Asia OA Community of Practice that is hosted by COAR. In 2024, the meeting was jointly organized by COAR and the All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society College of Engineering (AISSMS), in conjunction with UNESCO.
The meetings were attended by government and university policy makers, researchers, and other stakeholders as well as open science experts from UNESCO. The discussion focused on how we can collectively advance open science in India in a sustainable and equitable manner and provided an opportunity to hear from major open science players in India about their activities and the challenges related to open science. A summary of the meeting is available here.
The meeting came several months after G20 Chief Science Advisers’ Roundtable Meeting recognized the importance of evolving approaches to providing immediate and free access to appropriate publicly funded research publications and launched a project to establish interoperability standards that would allow interlinking among various national as well as international repositories
At the end of two very successful days of meetings, COAR and INFLIBNET agreed to work together to coalesce and strengthen the substantial network of open science repositories in India. See the announcement here.
These meetings took place at UNESCO offices in New Delhi.
Watch the video from April 17, 2024
Watch the video from April 18, 2024
