Dear All, To take the steps further with respect to the Open Access movement in this region of South Asia (SAARC), lets join together and form the Forum for Open Access in South Asia.
[image: oas-th.png] As of now, we have communities: OA Nepal OA Bangladesh OA Pakistan OA India We need to support our friends from Bhutan Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives who are yet to form a community in their respective countries. Please see the wordpress site and other social media sites which had been setup for outreach. https://opensouthasia.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensouth/ https://www.facebook.com/oasouthasia/ https://twitter.com/asia_open Want some of you to volunteer to take up the tasks of website and social media channels. Soon we will have a meeting to take the further steps. Thanks & Regards Sridhar *Sridhar Gutam <https://sgutam.wordpress.com/>, PhD, ARS* Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) | Convener, Open Access India <http://openaccessindia.org> # 213, 2nd Floor, Main Lab Building, ICAR-AICRP on Fruits <https://aicrp.icar.gov.in/fruits/> <http://www.iihr.res.in/> ICAR- <http://www.iihr.res.in/>Indian Institute of Horticultural Research <http://www.iihr.res.in> (ICAR-IIHR) Hesaraghatta Lake post, Bengaluru 560089, Karnataka, India Office Tel. No: +91-80-28466080, 23086100 Ext. 274 | Fax : +91-80-28466291 Mobile:+91-9005760036; +918002678768 Skype: Sridhar.Gutam | Twitter: @SridharGutam <https://twitter.com/sridhargutam> Official Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> Scholarship <http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/> | Impact <https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-5376-1565> | Citations <https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=6W1MSSwAAAAJ&hl=en> | Blog <https://sgutam.wordpress.com/> | Page <http://www.iihr.res.in/sridhar-gutam> <http://openaccessindia.org/expression-of-interest-for-indiarxiv-steering-committee/> AgriXiv <http://agrixiv.wordpress.com/> - Preprints for Agriculture and Allied Sciences *ICAR-IIHR <http://iihr.res.in/>* is a constituent establishment of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (*ICAR) <http://icar.org.in/>* under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (*DARE <http://dare.nic.in/>*), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare <http://agriculture.gov.in/>, Government of India <https://india.gov.in/>
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