Bravo to India’s DBT / DST on their proposed open access policy! | Sustaining the Knowledge Commons

"One of the keys to building and sustaining a global knowledge commons is good public open access policy. This post is a response to the Open Access Policy Committee of India’s Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Biotechnology on a proposed open access policy that is very forward-thinking in many respects and might be considered a new standard for open access policy for the world. The draft policy is posted here Government of India Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science and Technology (DBT / DST) Proposed Open Access Policy Comments submitted by Heather Morrison to the Open Access Policy Committee and cross-posted to Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ and The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/ Congratulations to the Open Access Policy Committee for a proposed policy that can be considered a new model for the world in almost every respect! My two suggestions to perfect this policy are as follows ..."