India to pitch for open access to research among G20 countries: Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood
The HinduIndia will make a pitch for interlinking of national archives of G-20 countries to make available scientific papers published by researchers free-of-charge when chief scientific advisors of the multilateral platform meet at Ramnagar in Uttarakhand next week. Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood will chair the G20-Chief Scientific Advisors' Roundtable, the first such initiative taken by the grouping, that will also deliberate on better response to future pandemics, tapping into traditional systems of medicine and setting up of a mechanism for continuous global science and technology policy dialogue. Mr. Sood said author publication charges in peer-reviewed scientific journals have become exorbitant and so has access to published research papers. The outcome of the chief scientific advisors roundtable may also lead to a separate declaration at the G20 leaders' summit scheduled for September in Delhi.