Youngsuk Chi, Chairman of Elsevier, called upon Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, and Scientific Secretary, Dr (Mrs.) Parvinder Maini, today to discuss potential collaborative efforts to support India's research landscape through the One Nation One Subscription (#ONOS) initiative. They also talked about ScopusAI developed by Elsevier - an AI-powered advanced version of Scopus to further accelerate research discovery. Remya Haridasan Saurabh Sharma Javed R
The One Nation One Subscription (#ONOS) initiative is a commendable step toward democratizing access to scholarly research, fostering a robust research ecosystem in India. While collaboration with entities like Elsevier is noteworthy, it's crucial to address a pressing concern: ensuring equitable access to knowledge without financial barriers such as article processing charges (APCs) for publishing in open-access journals. The academic community must move towards reducing the hierarchical distinction between SCIE and Scopus-indexed journals to foster a more inclusive and equitable research ecosystem. Recognizing journals based on their scientific contribution rather than their indexing is critical. Establishing a standardized minimum benchmark, such as an H-index of 10 or above, could serve as a fair criterion for evaluating journal quality across disciplines. Promoting equality among journals will not only democratize academic publishing but also help nurture diverse voices and innovations, furthering the global research community's collective progress.
Great initiative! Making the authors pay for getting papers published is degrading for research community! Journals should be online and available to all students and researchers! Similar to overseas journals like ASME,ASCE etc ,Indian Scientific fraternity,IISc,IITs and other HEIs should join together to initiate prestigious journals publishing articles in Regional Languages too,just like Chinese or Japanese journals! Readers interested can get articles translated in the language of their choice!
Govt must identify research areas and invite projects. Most important but lacking is effective project managenent. Lastly, at least some disvovery research should reach Technology Readiness Level 4 or 5. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE YARDSTICK. I CAN ELABORATE AT LENGTH
Scientific roots in nations, generally agenda free but when cross broader business and geo politics enters, makes wind flow in own favourable conditions. We will rarely know to whome we are working for !!
Very good initiative.look forward to early implementation
One nation and one subscription s fine but my worry is beyonds that. The publication houses should not meddle with research priority or set agenda for ranking parameters through SCI-Val. We should ourselves should know what research agenda our nation should have and it should not be driven mere by citations .
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Excellent initiative
All journals need go open source in India
Good initiative by #Elsevier
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3dresearch is govt. funded (mostly) researchers bring in ideas researchers work for years -- trying to innovate researchers / institutes need to pay for publishing their findings reviewers are volunteering researchers -- unpaid for time spent. researchers / institutes need to pay to access their own papers publishers enjoy profits : ) Any thoughts??