Open access—is it the way forward?

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Lately there has been a clamour for making our journal ‘Open Access’ (OA). It is therefore topical to debate and dissect the nitty-gritties of OA publication. The global campaign ‘Access to Knowledge’ (A2K) championed the noble intent that all knowledge must enter public realm. OA publication emerged as one of the prospective avenues. Though the OA movement gained steam only after Internet established a firm foothold in this millennium, the seeds were sown much earlier. Infact, one of the earliest proponents for universalising knowledge was Mahatma Gandhi, who famously renounced the copyrights of the contents of the English Edition of his book ‘Hind Swaraj’, by issuing a blurb ‘No Rights Reserved’ in 1910! …