Breaking the Academic Paywall and Accessing Knowledge

• India has the fourth highest number of PhD graduates globally, posing a challenge to accessing online papers.

• The Delhi High Court has blocked free access sites like SciHub and Libgen due to copyright infringement.

• India accounted for 8.7% of total download requests on SciHub in 2017.

• The Global South faces health realities due to systemic gaps, climate disasters, and violence.

• Corporate forces gatekeep scientific knowledge for profit, with universities focusing on well-known researchers.

• The Global South is often treated as an exotic field site for researchers from the Global North, with under-representation of researchers from the Global South.

• The Global South is disproportionately impacted by protectionism, violence, climate disasters, displacement, inaccessibility, and drug resistance.

• Society needs to pressure publishers and governments to open channels for easy access to scientific information.

Breaking Academic Paywall is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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