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     ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING TRUST FOR DEVELOPMENT
last up-dated January 3rd 2012

Petition for the EU Recommendation for guarenteed access to EU-funded research results continues to be supported,
and now reaches 28,305 signatures.

OA week logo NEWS!! We are proud to announce the winner of the Ept OA Award to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant contribution to the development of Open Access. The winner for the 2011 Award is Dr Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Scientific Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. To read more and find the names of the runners-up, link to the EPT Blog.

Dr Francis Jayakanth

 

For definitive information on all aspects of open access (scholarly, technical, policy), link to OASIS

[1] New 2011 OA auccess stories from Knowledge Exchange, researched by Michelle Pauli. Click on OA stories, above.
[2] A video for OA Week by Stevan Harnad, describing how to design Green OA self- archiving mandates - answers all the questions.
[3] Indian Academy of Science has its own OA Institutional Repository, the largest in India, containing ~31.400 documents - see http://repository.ias.ac.in
[4] OA by numbers - interview by Richard Poynder shows authoritative figures for the progress of OA, 20/6/11


The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) was established in 1996 to facilitate open access to the world's scholarly literature and to support the electronic publication of reviewed bioscience journals from countries experiencing difficulties with traditional publication.

    Scientists and publishers in many countries face problems both in accessing the world's research information and in gaining high visibility for their publications and national research output. The cost of printing and distributing journals leads to low circulation levels which in turn leads to a reluctance by scientists to publish. The outcome is the loss of much important scientific information which either remains unavailable to the international scientific community or suffers long delays in publication. The transfer of e-publishing technology and online distribution of such journals can greatly increase visibility and enrich the global knowledge base.

    The main activities of the EPT are to:

  • provide awareness of the benefits of electronic publishing
  • maintain the EPT Blog to highlight developments
  • support open access (OA) initiatives and make them known to developing country scientists and publishers
  • transfer e-publishing and OA technology through supporting workshops, training and online resources
  • support management and distribution activities
  • provide e-publishing and OA advocacy through articles, presentations, workshops.

    The Trust focuses on the biological sciences which, in such fields as infectious diseases, public health, tropical medicine, biodiversity, environmental and agricultural sciences, require a global picture. Local scientific information is critical, particularly in the case of human, animal and plant disease surveillance, climate change and conservation.

    • Bangalore Workshop 2006
    E-publishing workshop in Bangalore, India, November 2006

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