CSIR To Create Open Access Repositories

In a bid to break the monopoly of publishers quoting exorbitant rates to grant electronic resources for research, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is now creating an ‘open access repository’ of its own papers.

Speaking at the national conference, Reaching Out to Users through Technology (Route 2013), R R Hirwani, head of CSIR Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, said, “With publishers trying to exploit their monopoly position and quoting unreasonable prices for granting electronic access to research resources, the plan is to create an open access repository of CSIR’s own papers and help other laboratories with copies of papers from journals subscribed by them,” said Hirwani.