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Limitations of the “Indian One Nation, One Subscription” Policy Proposal and a Way Forward

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  • Koley, Moumita

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Indian science funding agencies have taken several policy measures to expedite access to scholarly knowledge. The proposed ‘one nation, one subscription’ plan is one such initiative. The main aim of this initiative is to facilitate the availability and accessibility of research articles for all higher educational institutions (HEI). This paper reflects upon the suitability and aptness of this suggested policy through an analysis of Open Access (OA) publication trends. Using Scopus and other web sources, this article tracks how the OA publishing scenario (STEM fields) is changing in India and other top publishing countries. Based on the findings, we argue that a national subscription contract is limiting its scope by considering only the option of subscription and disregarding OA publishing options. However, subscription and open access publishing deals are short-term gains and will ultimately increase the dependency on commercial publishers. In the long term, encouraging research that helps solve local context-specific problems can only be addressed by strengthening the publishing infrastructure by national research funding agencies or respective higher educational institutions through publishing and promoting open access content.

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  • Koley, Moumita, 2022. "Limitations of the “Indian One Nation, One Subscription” Policy Proposal and a Way Forward," OSF Preprints qprk5, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:qprk5
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qprk5
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