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Japan’s universities will receive 10 billion yen (around US$63 million) to build the digital infrastructure needed to make papers free to read. This will make Japan one of the first countries to move towards a unified record of all research produced by its academics.


Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.

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