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Indian science academies support open access
Distinguished Fellow
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
http://www.mssrf.org
8 December 2005 | EN
I read Barbara Kirsop's letter (see Royal Society must embrace open archiving) on the appalling stand taken by the UK Royal Society on open access.
Thankfully, the science academies in
All 11 journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, also presided over by a fellow of the UK Royal Society, are also open access journals, and there are currently efforts underway to make all previous volumes open access.
What is more, unlike the Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, these two academies do not charge authors (or their institutions) a fee for publishing their papers. They do charge for subscriptions to the print versions — as opposed to online versions — of their journals.
Link to SciDev.Net's special feature 'Opening doors with open access'
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