India Not Joining Plan S, Pursuing More Nationally Focused Efforts: K. VijayRaghavan

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-10-26

Summary:

"In February 2018, K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India, announced through a series of tweets that the Government of India, which funds over half of all scientific research undertaken in the country, will be joining an ambitious European effort to lower the costs of scientific publishing and improve public access to the scientific literature.

However, at a talk he delivered in Bengaluru on October 25, VijayRaghavan said that India will not be enrolling with this initiative – called Plan S – and that it is pursuing a parallel effort to negotiate with journal publishers...."

Link:

https://thewire.in/the-sciences/plan-s-open-access-scientific-publishing-article-processing-charge-insa-k-vijayraghavan

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Date tagged:

10/26/2019, 10:24

Date published:

10/26/2019, 06:24