PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56000
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OPEN HOUSE .
Prof. Kamal M. Chenoy,SIS,JNU JNU PRESS: Prof. Surinder S. Jhodhka,CSSS,JNU How to Ensure Democratic .
Prof. Nivedita Menon.SIS,JNU .
~ Access and Dissemination of .
Shuddhabrata Sengupta,Sarai, CSDS .
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Knowledge ~ .
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley,CGS, JNU .
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1 OCT TONIGHT Tapobrata, Lawyers' Collective GODAVARI \lESS 9.30PM ------------------.
..' ... ~Vith enough ofus, around rhe world, we'llnotjustsenda strong message opposing the privatizarion .
of knowledge-we'll make it a thing of the past."-Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, .
2008. .
Since March 2012, the JNU student community and JNUSU have been demanding the establishment of a JNU Press, which will facilitate the publication and wider dissemination of research done in JNU. Today, at a time when this demand has been accepted by the JNU administration, it is extremely important to ensure that any decision on the model; functioning and modalities of the JNU press be taken only after adequate deliberations of the wider JNU community; including students as weB as faculty members. The need for wider deliberations is all the more important given the non-transparent manner in which decisions regarding the JNU Press have been taken till now. JNUSU has therefore decided to call a series of open deliberations on this issue-and the Open House called today is the beginning of this process. .
The establishment of a Press, and the subsequent publication and dissemination of research done in JNU raises concerns that have to be addressed. We live in times when there are systematic attempts the world over to curb academic freedom, to curtail the free dissemination of knowledge, to commercialise the distribution of research. We however also live in times when the Open Access movement is thriving, when thousands of individuals and groups around the world are working out ways and means to oppose such moves. When we, as part of the JNU community, begin to think about what we need and want from the JNU Press, we have to ask ourselves: How do we ensure that research done in JNt Jis 'Nidely and freel:' circulated! Co weWant a model which wili curtail our academic freedom, that will give publication houses the right to reject a manuscript because of their ideological predilections, or because the research does not suit the 'market'? .
It is important that we, as part of the JNU community, collectively set down the principles which will govern the functioning of the JNU Press.An autonomous and academically independent press, where decisions will not be dictated by commercial interests, and which will try to ensure the widest possible access to research should be our priority. Let us not forget that several alternatives that have been produced in various experiments all over the world. .
The desire for qn alternative to the models of 'copyright' was sparked off almost a decade ago all over the world. The debate .
over copyright and free access came closer home when three major publishing houses-the Cambridge University Press, .
the Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis-filed a lawsuit against the Rameshwari Photocopy Shop and the .
University of Delhi for xeroxing and creating course packs. This anti-student move makes it all the more imperative for us, .
at this juncture to evolve new models of publication, so that the prin.ciple that knowledge can be or is privately owned is .
robustly resisted. .
And it is this principle that has brought together activists, computer programmers, academics, lawyers, artists and authors among others in the form of several different experiments of the Copyleft movement. The Copyleft movement, which encompasses initiatives such as open-source coding, creative commons licencing as well as now a probing into various kinds of publication possibilities that allow for free, perhap~~!t!ctro0ic forms r'f distributiol"' of kr..)wlcdge. .
It is precisely to discuss these ideas that the JNUSU has called the Open House tonight. JNUSU appeals to the student .
community to participate in the Open House at Godavari mess tonight, from 9.30 pm onwards, to discuss various .
options available regarding the model and functioning of the JNU Press. .
JNUSU congratulates the student community for participating in today's Protest against the threatening circular issued by the administration during the Aug 2013·agitation. Following the protest, a delegation of JNUSU along with representatives of various o~ganisations met the VC. The vc,·after the deliberation, assured that administration will not curb or interfere with any mode of protests that has been traditionally exercised by the JNU student community in the campus and which has been an integral part of JNU's democratic ethos. The administration will also issue a statement to this effect. JNUSU and JNU student community is committed to vigilantly fight any administrative interference and arbitrariness to defend our democratic spaces and rights for a more democratic and egalitarian JNU. .
Akbar, Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz, .
President,JNUSU Gen.Secy, JNUSU Jt. Secy.. JNUSU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56000
.
-----Join an---------------.
speakers -.
.
OPEN HOUSE .
Prof. Kamal M. Chenoy,SIS,JNU JNU PRESS: Prof. Surinder S. Jhodhka,CSSS,JNU How to Ensure Democratic .
Prof. Nivedita Menon.SIS,JNU .
~ Access and Dissemination of .
Shuddhabrata Sengupta,Sarai, CSDS .
.
Knowledge ~ .
Dr. Parnal Chirmuley,CGS, JNU .
·~ .
1 OCT TONIGHT Tapobrata, Lawyers' Collective GODAVARI \lESS 9.30PM ------------------.
..' ... ~Vith enough ofus, around rhe world, we'llnotjustsenda strong message opposing the privatizarion .
of knowledge-we'll make it a thing of the past."-Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, .
2008. .
Since March 2012, the JNU student community and JNUSU have been demanding the establishment of a JNU Press, which will facilitate the publication and wider dissemination of research done in JNU. Today, at a time when this demand has been accepted by the JNU administration, it is extremely important to ensure that any decision on the model; functioning and modalities of the JNU press be taken only after adequate deliberations of the wider JNU community; including students as weB as faculty members. The need for wider deliberations is all the more important given the non-transparent manner in which decisions regarding the JNU Press have been taken till now. JNUSU has therefore decided to call a series of open deliberations on this issue-and the Open House called today is the beginning of this process. .
The establishment of a Press, and the subsequent publication and dissemination of research done in JNU raises concerns that have to be addressed. We live in times when there are systematic attempts the world over to curb academic freedom, to curtail the free dissemination of knowledge, to commercialise the distribution of research. We however also live in times when the Open Access movement is thriving, when thousands of individuals and groups around the world are working out ways and means to oppose such moves. When we, as part of the JNU community, begin to think about what we need and want from the JNU Press, we have to ask ourselves: How do we ensure that research done in JNt Jis 'Nidely and freel:' circulated! Co weWant a model which wili curtail our academic freedom, that will give publication houses the right to reject a manuscript because of their ideological predilections, or because the research does not suit the 'market'? .
It is important that we, as part of the JNU community, collectively set down the principles which will govern the functioning of the JNU Press.An autonomous and academically independent press, where decisions will not be dictated by commercial interests, and which will try to ensure the widest possible access to research should be our priority. Let us not forget that several alternatives that have been produced in various experiments all over the world. .
The desire for qn alternative to the models of 'copyright' was sparked off almost a decade ago all over the world. The debate .
over copyright and free access came closer home when three major publishing houses-the Cambridge University Press, .
the Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis-filed a lawsuit against the Rameshwari Photocopy Shop and the .
University of Delhi for xeroxing and creating course packs. This anti-student move makes it all the more imperative for us, .
at this juncture to evolve new models of publication, so that the prin.ciple that knowledge can be or is privately owned is .
robustly resisted. .
And it is this principle that has brought together activists, computer programmers, academics, lawyers, artists and authors among others in the form of several different experiments of the Copyleft movement. The Copyleft movement, which encompasses initiatives such as open-source coding, creative commons licencing as well as now a probing into various kinds of publication possibilities that allow for free, perhap~~!t!ctro0ic forms r'f distributiol"' of kr..)wlcdge. .
It is precisely to discuss these ideas that the JNUSU has called the Open House tonight. JNUSU appeals to the student .
community to participate in the Open House at Godavari mess tonight, from 9.30 pm onwards, to discuss various .
options available regarding the model and functioning of the JNU Press. .
JNUSU congratulates the student community for participating in today's Protest against the threatening circular issued by the administration during the Aug 2013·agitation. Following the protest, a delegation of JNUSU along with representatives of various o~ganisations met the VC. The vc,·after the deliberation, assured that administration will not curb or interfere with any mode of protests that has been traditionally exercised by the JNU student community in the campus and which has been an integral part of JNU's democratic ethos. The administration will also issue a statement to this effect. JNUSU and JNU student community is committed to vigilantly fight any administrative interference and arbitrariness to defend our democratic spaces and rights for a more democratic and egalitarian JNU. .
Akbar, Sandeep Saurav Sarfaraz, .
President,JNUSU Gen.Secy, JNUSU Jt. Secy.. JNUSU .
.
.
.
.