[LIS-Forum] Social Justice in Scholarly Publishing: Open Access is the Only Way

[Siva Shankar Kimidi]

The open access movement emerged with the hope of making research papers
freely accessible to all without any barrier , but as Harnad points out the
inertia among scientists has hampered progress. For example, three major
agencies in India, viz, the Department of Science and Technology,
Department of Biotechnology and the Council of Scientific & Industrial
research,have open access mandates that require all researchers working in
laboratories under them and those receiving any kind of support from them
to place their published papers in institutional repositories whichin turn
are harvested by a central repository.

Full text article - http://dst.sciencecentral.in/36/

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Siva Shankar K

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