Draft ICAR Open Access Policy for Comments

India's ICAR (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) has posted its draft OA policy for comments. Comments are due by May 23, 2013. Excerpts: "The authors of the scholarly articles produced from the research conducted at the ICAR institutes have to deposit immediately the final authors version manuscripts of papers accepted for publication (pre-prints) in the institute’s Open Access repository....Scientists are advised to mention the ICAR’s Open Access policy while signing the copyright agreements with the publishers. And the embargo if any should not be later than 6 months....Final reports of completed research projects and M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis/dissertations to be deposited in the institutes open access repository after completion of the work....All the meta-data, full-texts and other records/data/information of the institutional repositories are copyrighted with the ICAR and are licensed under Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike (CC-NC-SA) for use, re-use and sharing without any warranty...."