Book ReviewPANORAMA OF OPEN ACCESS: Progress, Practices and Prospect/ Edited by Ashis Biswas and Mayuri Das Biswas. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 2022.Globally, the year 2020 brought enormous changes and arduous challenges. A great deal of damage has been done to almost every aspect of our lives, including health, education, employment, the market economy, industrial and agricultural productivity, and almost every aspect of our daily lives. A growing number of hindrances in the educational system forced authorities to rethink and reconstruct the teaching methods and ways to spread knowledge. As a result, open access to information, open educational resources, prior learning assessment, open degree plans, and competency-based learning have become popular. The unforeseen pandemic has also resulted in open access (OA) solutions being more valuable and necessary to achieve equity in the nation. There is no doubt that librarians and information centres have a crucial role to play in…
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