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Govt proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals, provide free access to all

The 'One Nation, One Subscription' policy for scientific journals is a radical move that could prove to be a game changer for the scientific community and individual researchers. In an ambitious move to make scientific knowledge and data available to all, the government has proposed an open data policy that will make information generated by all publicly funded research, including its results, freely accessible to everyone. More significantly, the government has also proposed to buy bulk subscriptions of all the important scientific journals across the world, and provide everyone in India free access to them. The proposals have been made in the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy that was released to the public on New Year’s Day for comments and suggestions. The ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ policy for scientific journals is a radical move that could prove to be a game changer for the scientific community and individual researchers. There are more than 3,000 to 4,0...

Google Scholar CASA

  Google Scholar CASA CASA (Campus Activated Subscriber Access) is an authentication enhancement that improves the authentication for off-campus users of Google Scholar. Overview CASA builds on Google Scholar's Subscriber Links program which provides direct links in the search interface to subscribed collections for  on-campus  users. CASA is  automatically  enabled for all customers that participate in  Google Scholar Subscriber Links  program. CASA builds on Google Scholar's Subscriber Links program which provides direct links in the search interface to subscribed collections for  on-campus  users. No action required from libraries to enable. No action required from users to enable. CASA linking will initiate automatically when users come to IEEE  Xplore  from Google Scholar. Provides 90 day token for access IEEE  Xplore  remotely. If you would like to opt-out of Google Scholar CASA linking, you will need to  opt-ou...

Open Access Journal - IEEE Access

IEEE Access® is a multidisciplinary, applications-oriented, all-electronic archival journal that continuously presents the results of original research or development across all of IEEE's fields of interest. Supported by author publication fees, its hallmarks are a rapid peer review and publication process with open access to all readers. This journal is 100% open access, which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. All articles are currently published under Creative Commons licenses (either CCBY or CCBY-NC-ND), and the author retains copyright. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles published under CCBY, or use them for any other lawful purpose, as long as proper attribution is given.    Articles published under CCBY-NC-ND are also available to users under the same conditions as CCBY, but the reuse cannot be for commercial purposes or change the work in ...