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New Delhi’s focus on striking a deal with the scientific publishing  industry ignores the true spirit of open access and knowledge sharing

Tue, Jan 19th 2021 8:01pm — Glyn Moody Techdirt has been following the important copyright case in India that is about how people in that country can access academic journals. Currently, many turn to "shadow libraries" like Sci-Hub and Libgen, because they cannot afford the often hefty frees that academic publishers charge to access papers. If a new "Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy" (pdf), just released as a draft by the Government of India, comes to fruition, people may not need t...