Govt patronage crucial for thriving of libraries

"The Concept of Open Access (OA) can make lots of authentic resources (journals, books, research articles) available at free of cost. USA and many countries have made it mandatory to publish all public-funded research output in OA journals. But India is yet to adopt such policy widely, barring one or two departments. Such apathy of the government has resulted in purchase of public-funded data/output at enormous cost."