Open Knowledge Society

Open Knowledge Society

Open Knowledge Society (OKS) is a non profit community working for the dissemination of all forms of Open Access to Knowledge.

Objectives

The Society mainly strive to achieve the objectives namely:

  • To promote actively the philosophy of open access and support organizations in academic publishing and establishing their institutional repositories,
  • To encourage a collaborative environment among the various open access initiatives and to act as a facilitator for commercial / governmental/ academic writers and publishers to come together,
  • To facilitate access to traditional knowledge and other knowledge repositories including libraries and archives,
  • To promote open and online education,
  • And ultimately to cultivate an atmosphere for the growth of quality research.

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