India has 415 universities, of which 285 are members of the AIU....
From the Memorandum of Understanding (not online) signed by Sijbolt Noorda, President of the VSNU, and Dayanand Dongaonkar, Secretary General of the AIU:
Areas of Cooperation....
Access to publications
The Parties will promote among their members open access to scientific and scholarly publications.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/18/2008 10:38:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
