It's good students are getting easy access to research papers but government funds going to these nasty opportunistic publishers is sending a very bad message. Deals like this only encourage these publishers that they have support and that they are in a 'legitimate' business.<p>We ought to be treating this mob like we do with cigarette manufacturers—barely on the side of 'legitimate' and that they're only still there because of historical circumstance.<p>The money the Indian Government has invested would have been better off spent ensuring that evey paper published in India would be published through its own scientific press. To achieve that it could make publishing in journals published by scumbag publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, etc. unlawful.