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Tuning in to hear the thoughts of @PrinSciAdvGoI on #scholcomm in India. Thread below. India has a huge role in shaping the future of English-language scientific publishing. Everyone working in #libraries #stmpublishing #openaccess should be paying attention to its priorities.
Prof Raghavan: Fundamentally in a situation where information is becoming the source of polarised power. Knowledge and power have always gone together, and access to information means access to power. Today, those with access to the analysis of data wield disproportionate power.
Much of what we see in scientific publishing today is a relic of the printing press. Those who could print could collate knowledge and make it available, at great effort. The net result was that the printed copy was expensive.
