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                *Press Release*
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<br>Bengaluru | 14th August 2019
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<br>*Research outputs find a home at IndiaRxiv, India’s first Preprints
<br>Service*
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<br>Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch
<br>IndiaRxiv on the eve of India's 73rd Independence Day as the country joins
<br>the global march for open science.
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<br>Open Access India  and the Center for Open
<br>Science  have collaborated to launch *IndiaRxiv*
<br>*,* India's first preprint service. IndiaRxiv began
<br>as a vision for a single open platform that could provide free access to
<br>all publicly-funded research outputs (publications) from India and to
<br>provide Indian scholars with a way to share their scholarly outputs. Today,
<br>on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day, we are happy to introduce
<br>IndiaRxiv. Beginning 15th August, 2019, the preprint service will be open
<br>to all researchers and scholars of India and others who are working on
<br>issues related to India.
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<br>IndiaRxiv is being launched not only for scholars to share their articles
<br>and read the work published by their peers, but also to provide public
<br>access to the latest research, allowing authors to gather feedback and
<br>ideas and build upon existing work.
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<br>NITI Aayog, the policy think tank of the Indian government envisions in its
<br>'Strategy for New India @ 75
<br>' that by 2022, five of
<br>the scientific research institutions in India should be among the top 100
<br>in the world. The Open Access India community believes that when research
<br>produced by the research institutes is made freely available, it will reach
<br>a wider audience having a larger impact and increase in collaborations. It
<br>is hoped that the IndiaRxiv repository will become a portal for sharing and
<br>showcasing the latest research produced across all the institutes and
<br>universities in the country and the open access community will strive
<br>towards this goal.
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<br>*What are Preprints?*
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<br>Preprints are the first draft of the versions made by the authors before
<br>submitting to the journals for publication. The researchers posting
<br>preprints in public repositories will help them in date stamping their work
<br>and showcasing the same for making grant applications or for applying for
<br>any positions.
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<br>There is growing support from eminent scientists and academic bodies like
<br>Indian National Science Academy (INSA
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<br>for preprints and advocating that preprints should be used for evaluation
<br>at par with the peer reviewed publications in the recruitment of postdocs
<br>or faculty and also for funding grants.
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<br> *“Let’s give freedom to our scholarly literature and make it available
<br>freely to the world.”* - Sridhar Gutam, Convenor, Open Access India and
<br>Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru.
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<br>*“IndiaRxiv should now be the flagship and window of cutting-edge science
<br>happening in India; a first choice publication platform.”* - Biswapriya
<br>Misra, Steering Committee Member, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest School
<br>of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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<br>*“I am really happy to see the dream of IndiaRxiv – the ‘freedom’
<br>statement
<br>of free India – come true. India gained her political freedom over seven
<br>decades back; she now aspires to earn her academic freedom through
<br>IndiaRxiv, a noble initiative in matured open access research and learning.
<br>IndiaRxiv will be fully indexed in National Digital Library of India to
<br>reach every corner of the world within a single click.”* - Partha Pratim
<br>Das, Joint Principal Investigator, National Digital Library of India
<br>Project and Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT
<br>Kharagpur
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<br>IndiaRxiv is managed by a steering committee
<br> comprised of researchers and scientists
<br>from various institutes and universities, and its advisory board
<br> includes internationally renowned
<br>advocates and supporters of open science and open access. With the support
<br>of COS and the international steering committee, the Open Access India
<br>community previously launched AgriXiv , an open
<br>access scholarly repository for agriculture and allied sciences.
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<br>The desired outcome is that journal publishers and funding agencies in
<br>India will amend their policies to allow their authors to submit preprints
<br>to IndiaRxiv, which accepts all scholarly works in all Indian languages.
<br>IndiaRxiv has a policy to moderate all the submissions and the same will be
<br>made available on the license terms of CC-BY-NC-SA or CC-BY-Attribution 4.0
<br>International.
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<br>IndiaRxiv is the 26th community preprints service built on the COS’s
<br>flagship platform, OSF , which helps researchers
<br>design and manage their project workflow, store their data, generate DOIs,
<br>and collaborate with colleagues. COS has leveraged the platform to help the
<br>research communities in many disciplines to discover new research as it
<br>happens and to receive quick feedback on their own research prior to
<br>publication. COS’s preprints platform provides an easy, robust, and stable
<br>solution for organizations that want to launch their own preprints service.
<br>COS is currently supporting branded services in marine and earth sciences,
<br>psychology, social sciences, engineering, agriculture, imaging,
<br>paleontology, sports research, contemplative research, law, library and
<br>information science, nutrition, as well as national, multidisciplinary
<br>services in Indonesia, France, the Arab nations, and Africa.
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<br>*About the Center for Open Science *The Center for Open Science
<br> (COS) is a non-profit technology and culture change
<br>organization founded in 2013 with a mission to increase openness,
<br>integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. COS pursues this
<br>mission by building communities around open science practices, supporting
<br>metascience research, and developing and maintaining free, open source
<br>software tools. The OSF is a web application that provides a solution for
<br>the challenges facing researchers who want to pursue open science
<br>practices, including: a streamlined ability to manage their work;
<br>collaborate with others; discover and be discovered; pre-register their
<br>studies; and make their code, materials, and data openly accessible. Learn
<br>more at cos.io and osf.io.
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<br>*About OSF Preprints*
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<br>The branded preprints platform from COS provides organizations that want to
<br>launch their own preprints service an easy, robust, and stable solution.
<br>The platform can be configured to match their brand, editorial focus,
<br>licensing requirements, and taxonomy. Once configured, a new service can be
<br>up and indexing new preprints in a matter of days. Preprints contributors
<br>are also encouraged to include links to their research, if available. If
<br>the preprint is associated with an existing OSF project, that project can
<br>also be easily accessed and explored. *OSF Preprints* uses SHARE
<br> to aggregate search results from a variety
<br>of other preprints providers like arXiv , bioRXiv
<br>, PeerJ , CogPrints
<br> and others into its archive.
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<br>*About Open Access India*
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<br>The Open Access India is a community of practice was initially an online
<br>Facebook group
<br> formed on 8th July 2011. The
<br>community members are working for taking forward the Open Access movement
<br>in India with the following aims and objectives.
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<br>   - Advocacy – sensitizing the students, researchers, policy makers and
<br>   the general public about Open Access, Open Data and Open Education.
<br>   - Development of community e-infrastructure, capacity building and
<br>   framework for policies related to Open Access, Open Data and Open
<br>Education.
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<br>To support the cause and to work for the aims and objectives, we have
<br>fantastic Ambassadors
<br>, a committed
<br>Working Group
<br>, few
<br>Convenors
<br> and the best Advisory Board
<br>. Everyone who as
<br>interests in Open Access, Open Data and Open Education and wish to be part
<br>of the Open
<br>Access Movement in India
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<br>to join
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<br>Contact for *IndiaRxiv | Open Access India*
<br>Media: Sridhar Gutam indiarxiv@gmail.com | sridhar@openaccessindia.org
<br>Web: https://indiarxiv.org | http://openaccessindia.org/
<br>Twitter: @IndiaRxiv  | @OAIndia
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<br>Contact for* the Center for Open Science*
<br>Media: Claire Riss claire@cos.io
<br>Starting a Branded Preprints Service: Nici Pfeiffer nici@cos.io
<br>Web: https://cos.io/preprints
<br>Twitter: @osframework
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