Union Government has formulated a policy under which researchers will have an unrestricted access to the papers arising out of the publicly funded research without requiring paying for it. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences (Independent Charge) Dr. Jitendra Singh in the Lok Sabha said that Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Technology has drafted an open access policy and it is hosted on the respective departments’ websites seeking comments and suggestions from scientific community and the public.
Once the Policy is adopted, researchers will have an unrestricted access to the papers arising out of the publicly funded research without requiring to pay for it. Several concerns such as payment of publication charges, copy right issues, freedom to choose the journal, quality etc have been raised. These will be addressed while framing the Open Access Policy.
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