The Hindu : FEATURES / EDUCATION PLUS : In defence of Open Access systems

Use the link to access the full text trnascript of the interview, introduced as follows: "Leslie Chan of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, is hailed as one of the leading figures in the movement towards a democratised system of information access. He was at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management in Thiruvananthapuram recently to deliver a talk on 'Emerging trends in scholarly communication and what prospects the near future hold for open access.' He is a pioneer in the use of the Web for knowledge exchange and learning. His long-term teaching and research interests are in the roles of openness and control in the flow of knowledge and information and their impact on local and international development and in the development of alternative forms of knowledge media and communicative practices enabled by social network and collaborative software. In this e-mail interview with The Hindu-EducationPlus , he discusses the merits of the Open Access initiative..."