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"The Japanese government is pushing ahead with a plan to make Japan’s publicly
funded research output free to read. In June, the science ministry will assign
funding to universities to build the infrastructure needed to make research
papers free to read on a national scale. The move follows the ministry’s
announcement in February that researchers who receive government funding will
be required to make their papers freely available to read on the institutional
repositories from January 2025.
The Japanese plan “is expected to enhance the long-term traceability of
research information, facilitate secondary research and promote collaboration”,
says Kazuki Ide, a health-sciences and public-policy scholar at Osaka
University in Suita, Japan, who has written about open access in Japan.
The nation is one of the first Asian countries to make notable advances towards
making more research open access (OA) and among first countries in the world to
forge a nationwide plan for OA.
The plan follows in the footsteps of the influential Plan S, introduced six
years ago by a group of research funders in the United States and Europe known
as cOAlition S, to accelerate the move to OA publishing. The United States also
implemented an OA mandate in 2022 that requires all research funded by US
taxpayers to be freely available from 2026."
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