India’s chief science adviser: cost of academic publishing is ‘untenable

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Summary:

"India’s annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

“We have to take a clear position – the current situation is untenable and costly,” VijayRaghavan told Science|Business.

VijayRaghavan was speaking after he tweeted that India would be signing up to the most radical opposition to the scientific publishing status quo: Plan S, an initiative launched last year by a group of European funders to ensure that, by 2020, taxpayer-funded research results are made immediately free to read...."

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https://sciencebusiness.net/news/indias-chief-science-adviser-cost-academic-publishing-untenable

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Date tagged:

02/20/2019, 11:20

Date published:

02/20/2019, 09:40