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

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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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.

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Nature 586, 181-182 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02708-4

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  • Clarification 02 October 2020: The story has been updated to clarify Springer Nature and Elseviers’ statements on India’s new proposal.

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