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'Open access can vastly help Indian science'
Current Science cited pressures on libraries worldwide to "prune their subscriptions in the face of mounting costs".
It said Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science itself, probably India's largest repository of scientific and engineering journals, was thinking of trimming its library's subscriptions.
Beyond scholarly works, new technologies, including digital online databases, are rewriting the manner in which knowledge is created and shared in diverse fields.
Bangalore-based lawyer Lawrence Liang, known for his support to Open Access approaches, noted that all the Supreme Court judgements are now available online and most of high courts' judgements are "on their way to being made available".
"Under section 52 of the Copyright Act, it is very clear that all judgments can be reproduced without a problem," Liang pointed out.
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Current Science cited pressures on libraries worldwide to "prune their subscriptions in the face of mounting costs".
It said Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science itself, probably India's largest repository of scientific and engineering journals, was thinking of trimming its library's subscriptions.
Beyond scholarly works, new technologies, including digital online databases, are rewriting the manner in which knowledge is created and shared in diverse fields.
Bangalore-based lawyer Lawrence Liang, known for his support to Open Access approaches, noted that all the Supreme Court judgements are now available online and most of high courts' judgements are "on their way to being made available".
"Under section 52 of the Copyright Act, it is very clear that all judgments can be reproduced without a problem," Liang pointed out.
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