The introduction to this interview with K. VijayRaghavan is longer than the actual interview, but in this case it's words well spent, as Richard Poynder discusses why India won't be joining Plan S (which aims to entrench open access scientific publication). "India is still moving towards a national open access policy, but wants to develop its own approach rather than join cOAlition S." Why? Well, this is suggestive: " most believe that the practical outcome of the initiative will be a near-universal pay-to-publish environment in which the main beneficiaries will be the publishing oligopoly, not the research community." Yes, that would be a bad outcome. And in this light, India's actions are unsurprising.
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