1.Open Archive Developments inIndiaDr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor, SHPT School of Library ScienceUGC Sponsored National Conference (OAMII2012) Open Access Movement in the Age ofInnovation and ICT: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities6th & 7th January, 2012

2. Pioneers of growth of OpenAccess in IndiaProf. Subbiah ArunachalamProf. N. BalakrishnanDr. T. B. RajashekarDr D. K. SahuA. R. D. Prasad and so on. 3. India wide programmes on OA Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam organized a workshop on Open Access and Institutional Repositories under the aegis of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, in May, 2004 A special session on OA was held at the 93rd Indian Science Congress in January 2006 In mid-March 2006, NCSI-IISc had created a Cross Archive Search Service for the Indian Repositories (CASSIR). The Open Access Week (www.openaccessweek.org) was held worldwide from 18 to 24 October, 2010 A one-day seminar on open access took place on 16th March, 2011 at India International Centre, 4. National Knowledge Commission:Open Access and Open EducationalResources Research articles published by Indian authorsreceiving any government or public funding mustbe made available under OA Government should allocate specific funding toincrease the digitization , high quality OCR Author paid journals Specific fund for OA research publications 5. Present Scene of OpenArchives Shodhganga: 2000 full-text theses of 30universities Google is in touch with NKC Indian mirror-site for arXiv Promise from director of IISc and CSIR E-gyankosh Journal of Free Software and Free Knowledge &Annals OJS 6. Present status 4 cross institutional archives, 2 cross institutional electronic thesis anddissertation (ETD) repositories, 3 institutional ETD repositories, 22 functional institutional repositories 200 OA journals