US Will Make Public-Funded Research Free To Read. Where Does India Stand? – The Wire Science

"In India too, there has been a discussion about granting open access to public-funded research. Last year, India’s fifth (draft) Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy suggested that research produced in Indian publicly funded institutions should be made freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication. It also proposed a ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ plan, under which the government will negotiate with journal publishers to enable access for everyone. This plan could make access to scientific journals easier, but as Anubha Sinha wrote in an article for The Wire Science, the outcome of similar subscription plans in Uruguay and Egypt was mixed. It “will depend largely on how negotiations with publishers materialise”.... The STI policy prefers a green open access approach – arguing that taxpayers should not pay twice – and mandates researchers to place their publications and data in online repositories. There will also be no restrictions on how the output is used...."