<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Greetings from India! Happy New Year 2020<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Action Requested: <a href="http://bit.ly/S4Amelica">http://bit.ly/S4Amelica</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Ref: <a href="http://amelica.org/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://amelica.org/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">______________________________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Dear Colleagues and Friends <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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!?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">The journal of Horticultural Sciences (JHS) ISSN 0973-354X <a href="https://jhs.iihr.res.in/index.php/jhs/about" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://jhs.iihr.res.in/index.php/jhs/about</a> from India had recently joined AmeliCA and is now in the process of publishing its articles using AmeliCA XML markup language.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Similarly, if the journal editors from South Asia are willing to use AmeliCA XML may please express their interest by filling the form at <a href="http://bit.ly/S4Amelica">http://bit.ly/S4Amelica</a>. We may get offline or online meeting/workshop and capacity building for the same.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Thanks & Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Sridhar</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><a href="http://bit.ly/S4Amelica">http://bit.ly/S4Amelica</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><a href="https://sgutam.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Sridhar Gutam</a>, PhD, ARS</b><br>Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology)<span style="font-style:normal"> | Working Group Member</span>, <a href="http://openaccessindia.org" target="_blank">Open Access India</a> </span></font></span></div><div><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"># 213, 2nd Floor, Main Lab Building, <a href="https://aicrp.icar.gov.in/fruits/" target="_blank">ICAR-AICRP on Fruits</a><a href="http://www.iihr.res.in/" target="_blank"><br></a></span></font></span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.iihr.res.in/" target="_blank"> ICAR-</a><span><a href="http://www.iihr.res.in" target="_blank">Indian Institute of Horticultural Research</a> (ICAR-IIHR)</span></span></font></span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hesaraghatta Lake post, Bengaluru 560089, <span>Karnataka, India</span></span></font></span></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Office Tel. 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