STIP

25 Jan

India’s Top Thought Leaders provide their vision and ideas on draft STIP

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This policy document aims at taking everything into consideration to shape the future of the country: Professor K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India “we focus on generated knowledge, but we need to consume them properly to bring innovation- connecting innovation to knowledge”:Prof Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST A post-draft consultation process that saw the participation of some of the top experts and thought leaders from a range of disciplines brought in enriching ideas to strengthen the draft of the 5th National Science Technology and Innovation Policy. “There has been a digital revolution with immense changes in technology…

06 Jan

Government moots “one nation, one subscription” policy

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New Delhi : The draft of the 5th National Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) has been finalized. The draft policy seeks to make scholarly research papers and literature accessible for free to everyone in the country. “The Government of India will negotiate with journal publishers for one nation, one subscription plan whereby, against one centrally negotiated payment, all individuals in India will have access to journal articles. This will replace individual institutional journal subscriptions” said Prof Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, The Department of Science and Technology (DST), in a press conference. The policy drafted through a 4 track process of…