Sridhar Gutam has posted the full policy on Open Access adopted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) ICAR adopts Open Access Policy.
Each ICAR institute is to setup an Open Access Institutional Repository. ICAR shall set up a central harvester to harvest the metadata and full-text of all the records from all the OA repositories of the ICAR institutes for one stop access to all the agricultural knowledge generated in ICAR. All the meta-data and other information of the institutional repositories are copyrighted with the ICAR. These are licensed for use, re-use and sharing for academic and research purposes. Commercial and other reuse requires written permission. All publications viz., research articles, popular articles, monographs, catalogues, conference proceedings, success stories, case studies, annual reports, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, bulletins, summary of the completed projects, speeches, and other grey literature available with the institutes is to be placed under Open Access. The institutes are free to place their unpublished reports in their open access repository. They are encouraged to share their works in public repositories like YouTube and social networking sites like Facebook ®, Google+, etc. along with appropriate disclaimer.
Read the full policy statement on the openaccessweek website.
