2006 - India's first institutional mandate of open access adopted by the National institute of Technology, Rourkela.[7]
2008 - FirstUNESCO book on OA released in India titled "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario"[1]
2011 - UGC andINFLIBNET Centre launched theShodhganga : A Reservoir of Indian Theses, to disseminate theses and dissertations produced in Indian universities.
2016 - UGCMandates M. Phil & Ph.D. thesis deposition.
2017 - Open Access India had developed and submitted a draft 'National Open Access Policy' to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Science & Technology.[10][11]
2017 - AgriXiv, preprints repository launched by Open Access India with the support of the Centre for Open Science.[12]
2018 - The "Delhi Declaration on Open Access" in South Asia was issued on 14 February 2018, signed by dozens of academics and supporters.[13]
2019 - IndiaRxiv, India's preprint repository launched by the Open Access India community.[15][16]
2019 - Open Access India joinsAmeliCAArchived 27 August 2024 at theWayback Machine in taking forward the 'non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly communications' in India[17][18]
2020 - AgriXiv is relaunched as agriRxiv by jointly by the Open Access India and CABI.[19]
The Open Access India forum was started in 2011 as an online forum and as a community of practice.[24][25] The members of the community of practice,Open Access India had adapted the PLOS's Open Access logo and modified it to represent it as the Open Access movement in India and had formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India.[10]
As of April 2018, there are at least 78 collections of scholarship in India housed in digitalopen access repositories.[27][28][29] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that arefree to read. The Open Access India with the help ofCentre for Open Science had launched apreprint repository for India,IndiaRxiv on 5 August 2019 which had recently crossed 100 records mark.[30] However, it is not accepting the records currently on its OSF but there is an update of resumption on new website.[31][32] The Open Access India earlier had launched AgriXiv, preprints repository for agriculture and allied sciences which is now currently with CABI as agriRxiv.[33]
The third edition of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access under the theme:Collaboration for Equitable Digital Infrastructures and Knowledge Commons in Agriculture and Broader Scientific Research Systems is scheduled to be held at Bengaluru during February 2-6, 2026. The first Global Summit on Diamond Open Access was in Toluca, Mexico (October 2023), and the second Summit in Cape Town, South Africa (December 2024) brought together global experts and resulted in significant collective outcomes, including the Toluca–Cape Town Declaration on Diamond Open Access. The Bengaluru Summit aims to builds directly on these foundations, with an emphasis on implementation, sustainability, and institutional alignment[34].
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