Accelerating Access to Research Results: Since the release of NIH’s 2008 Public Access Policy, more than 1.5 million articles reporting on NIH-supported research have been made freely available to the public through PubMed Central. While the 2008 Policy allowed for an up to 12-month delay before such articles were required to be made publicly available, in 2024, NIH revised the Public Access Policy to remove the embargo period so that researchers, students, and members of the public have rapid access to these findings. --Source: National Institutes of Health, April 30 2025 [link]
If you're interested in the publishing industry and how it works, and how it doesn't, you may need to watch this talk from an old DEFCON event: DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory - 2018 [youtube]
Image credit: AI Art - Golden Scrolls - Jan 2025
India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals
Dec 2024, Science
For the haters - India was the third largest producer of research papers globally last year - yet thousands of Indian students and researchers cannot read many of them because their institutions can’t afford subscriptions to the journals in which many appear. But that is about to change: Last week, the Indian government announced a giant deal with multiple publishers that will allow an estimated 18 million students, faculty, and researchers free access to nearly 13,000 journals, including some top-tier ones, through a single portal. ($715 million over 3 years to 30 global publishers).
Update: India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for training AI on copyrighted content
Dec 2025, Tech Crunch
Partially Unrelated Post Script: The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel about totalitarian takeover , written by Margaret Atwood in 1985 [wiki]. In May 2022, Atwood announced that an "unburnable" copy of the book would be produced and auctioned off to "stand as a powerful symbol against censorship". On 7 June 2022, the unique, "unburnable" copy was sold through Sotheby's in New York for $130,000. (I have to assume it was made of asbestos? Nope - nickel wire, stainless steel, aluminum and fire-resistant inks.)
--Pengelly, Martin (24 May 2022). "Atwood responds to book bans with 'unburnable' edition of Handmaid's Tale". The Guardian.
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