(6 July 2018) The Open Access India is constituting an advisory and a steering committee to establish and manage preprints repository for India, indiaRxiv with the support of Centre for Open Science. Earlier, the community had launched preprints repository for agriculture and allied sciences, AgriXiv.
Anyone who would like to get involved in establishing the regional preprints server for India may share their details in this form by close date, 28th July 2018.
Why Preprints? Preprints will have the priority of publication with date stamp and will help the scholars/researchers to publicize their scholarly research outputs and get feedback on the work before it gets formally published in peer reviewed journals. They can also showcase their work in the applications for seeking grants in support of their work.
With the support of the Centre for Open Science, Arabic preprints, ArabiXiv; French preprints, FrenXiv, Indonesian preprints, INArxiv, were launched and SciELO Preprints for Latin America, Iberian Peninsula, South Africa is on the way.
Recently, the INSA’s policy Statement on dissemination and evaluation of research output in India had made emphasis on preprints and also had suggested for the establishment of a national preprints repository in India. The Delhi Declaration on Open Access mentions about commitment for Preprints.
For more details on indiaRxiv, you may contact [email protected]
The announcement is here.
