India pushes bold ‘one nation, one subscription’ journal-access plan

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-09-30

Summary:

"The Indian government is pushing a bold proposal that would make scholarly literature accessible for free to everyone in the country. The government wants to negotiate with the world’s biggest scientific publishers to set up nationwide subscriptions, rather than many agreements with individual institutions that only scholars can use, say researchers consulting for the government...."

Link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02708-4

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oa.new oa.india oa.policies oa.lay oa.green oa.south oa.fees oa.economics_of oa.rights-retention oa.debates oa.repositories

Date tagged:

09/30/2020, 11:19

Date published:

09/30/2020, 07:22