Inaugural Session

Session 1:

Session 2:

• 11.30 Welcome Address   Prof. S Chandrasekaran, Secretary, IASc.

• 11.35 Special Address      Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc

• 11.45 About Workshop     Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, MSSRF

• 11.55 Special Address      Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, President, ICSU

• 12.00 Keynote Address    Mr. Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum

• 12.40 Vote of Thanks       Dr. S. Venkadesan, Librarian, IISc

Open Access in the Developing Countries

• Chairman: Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar

• 12.45 Dr. Barbara Kirsop: Electronic Publishing Trust, UK

Why do we advocate OA for Developing Countries?

• 13.15 Chairman's Remarks and discussion.

Open Access - the international scene

• Chairman: Dr. Mesfin Redi

• 14.45 Alma Swan: Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK

OA - What does research on OA Suggest?

• 15.15 Dr. Abel Packer: SciELO/PAHO/BIREME, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Latin American Experience

• 16.00 Chairman's remarks and discussion

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Session 3:

The situation in the developing countries

Chairperson: Helen King

• 09.00 Prof. Zu Guang'an  : Executive Director, Department of Publication, NSFC,  Beijing, China

Journal publishing in China - The NSFC experience

• 09.20 Dr. Eve Gray      : Consultant and OSI Fellow, South Africa

Open Access in South Africa

•  09.40 Dr. D K Sahu       : Managing Director, Medknow Publications Pvt
                                         Ltd., Mumbai, India

Open Access Journal publishing in India

•  10.00 Pippa Smart   : Head, Publishing Initiatives, INASP

The role of INASP - Promoting local journals

•  10.20 A R D Prasad  :  Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India

Training and advocacy in India

•  10.40 Muthu Madhan : How I convinced my director to mandate OA

•  11.00 Dr Liu Xiwen:  Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
                                  China

Open Access Movement and Development in China

• 11.20 Amit Kapoor :  TOPAZ Foundation San Francisco, California, USA

TOPAZ Software

•  11.40 Questions Hour

•  11.55 Chairperson's remarks and discussion

Session 4:

The Role played by international organizations

• Chairperson : S Krishnan

• 12.00 Ms. Susan Veldsman :  eIFL, South Africa

eIFL's role in promoting Open Access

• 12.20 Phet Sayo          : IDRC's role in promoting Open Access

• 12.40 Anand Parthasarathy : An outsider's view

• 13.00 Chairperson's remarks and discussion

Session 5:

Open Forum - Dialogue with publishing scientists and OA advocates

• 14.45 Moderators : Dr Alma Swan and Prof. M R N Murthy

Concluding Session:

Chairman : Prof. Zu Guang'an

•  16.45 Discussion and adoption of the Bangalore Commitment

•  17.15 Workshop ends

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