Shamprasad M. Pujar is chief librarian at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. He is responsible for overseeing library operations, digital collections, open access initiatives, repository management, and technology initiatives in library services.
Collective library investment aligns open access publishing with the core values of librarianship. Models like MIT’s Direct to Open and JSTOR’s Path to Open point the way toward a more inclusive and resilient future for scholarly communication.
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