Greetings from India! Happy New Year 2020 Action Requested: http://bit.ly/S4Amelica
Ref: http://amelica.org/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Colleagues and Friends You are all aware that the year 2020 was the year for Open Access and there were good efforts to make the World Open Access by 2020. However, we could not meet the deadline. This is mainly because of not reaching to a conclusion and still debating on Open Access for Profit or Non Profit!? Now I am not going to saying much on Open Access but would like to draw your attention towards Amelica.org, AmeliCA XML markup language which is developed by the AmeliCA as a "communication infrastructure for scholarly publishing and open science, sustained cooperatively". It is for a "non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly and open nature of scientific communication" Supported by UNESCO, CLACSO & Redalyc, this AmeliCA XML is compliant with JATS standards and helps all the scholarly journals that promote a non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly and open nature of scientific communication. The AmeliCA XML helps to produce HTML, ePUB, PDF etc versions which the scholarly societies can use and make their journals more visible worldwide over internet. And also get their publications preserved and communicate with other platforms. With this background, I am proposing that lets all join together in building not for profit scholarly publishing ecosystem. The journals in South Asia which are traditional print only are not slowly moving towards online and open access but their native publications are only in PDF formats. I am sure and confident that the journals when adopt and use the AmeliCA XML, the journal articles will be better formatted and are available for interoperable and sharing. The journal of Horticultural Sciences (JHS) ISSN 0973-354X https://jhs.iihr.res.in/index.php/jhs/about from India had recently joined AmeliCA and is now in the process of publishing its articles using AmeliCA XML markup language. Similarly, if the journal editors from South Asia are willing to use AmeliCA XML may please express their interest by filling the form at http://bit.ly/S4Amelica. We may get offline or online meeting/workshop and capacity building for the same. Thanks & Regards Sridhar http://bit.ly/S4Amelica *Sridhar Gutam <https://sgutam.wordpress.com/>, PhD, ARS* Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) | Working Group Member, Open Access India <http://openaccessindia.org> # 213, 2nd Floor, Main Lab Building, ICAR-AICRP on Fruits <https://aicrp.icar.gov.in/fruits/> <http://www.iihr.res.in/> ICAR- <http://www.iihr.res.in/>Indian Institute of Horticultural Research <http://www.iihr.res.in> (ICAR-IIHR) Hesaraghatta Lake post, Bengaluru 560089, Karnataka, India Office Tel. No: +91-80-28466080, 23086100 Ext. 274 | Fax : +91-80-28466291 Mobile:+91-9005760036; +918002678768 Skype: Sridhar.Gutam | Twitter: @SridharGutam <https://twitter.com/sridhargutam> Official Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> Scholarship <http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/> | Impact <https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0001-5376-1565> | Citations <https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=6W1MSSwAAAAJ&hl=en> | Blog <https://sgutam.wordpress.com/> | Page <http://www.iihr.res.in/sridhar-gutam> <http://openaccessindia.org/expression-of-interest-for-indiarxiv-steering-committee/> AgriXiv <http://agrixiv.wordpress.com/> - Preprints for Agriculture and Allied Sciences *ICAR-IIHR <http://iihr.res.in/>* is a constituent establishment of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (*ICAR) <http://icar.org.in/>* under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (*DARE <http://dare.nic.in/>*), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare <http://agriculture.gov.in/>, Government of India <https://india.gov.in/>
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