A scientific organization that gives its members the green light to interact with journalists and the public, without insisting that every such interaction be filtered through an administrative layer or otherwise controlled, is doing things right.
Preprints level the playing field for scientists from the developing world. They may simply be the most innovative method we know of that enables such access to the best of science from all round the world.
On 27 June 2018, the Human Resources Development Ministry of the Government of India announced that it would repeal the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act and introduce a new regulatory body for higher education called the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). This announcement has received intense critique from a faction of the Indian academic world. Prof. V. S. Sunder expresses his concern over this corrupt initiative of bureaucratizing Indian higher education system.
What are the skills that a 21st century student need to acquire? Is the present education system up to the task in imparting those skills?
This is the text of the letter written by a group of Indian citizens to the Honorable President of India, expressing their concern about recent happenings in the Indian Space Research Organization.
The purpose of this Mini-Symposium is to bring together curators/librarians/ other interested people for a discussion on the importance of digitization (in addition to traditional long-term stage e.g. paper) in terms of access and searchability, by Carl Malamud. The Academy’s efforts at digitization of back issues of all its journals (back to 1934 and 1910 for J Genetics) will be discussed and the archive inaugurated. A Kannada translation (ebook) of the book ‘C V Raman Memoir’ by Jayaraman will also be released. The Academy is also collaborating with Malamud in projects to digitize and make available science-related resources from India, in addition to specifically digitizing publications (incl 50+ books) published by the Academy.
