New speaker announced for One Nation One Subscription webcast

4 March 2025

We are delighted to announced the addition of a fourth speaker for our “One Nation, One Subscription – Many Opinions” webcast, which takes place on 20 March.

Representing the research community in India, Anindita Bhadra is a Professor of Biology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. Her research focuses on the behavioural ecology of free-ranging dogs. She was the founding chairperson of INYAS, served as a Co-chair of the Global Young Academy, and serves on the editorial board of Frontiers Policy Labs.

At the end of last year, to great fanfare, the Government of India announced the launch of its long-awaited One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme – a $750m initiative aimed at increasing access to research for millions of scholars across the country.

In this webcast, featuring speakers with a deep knowledge of scholarly communications in India, we’ll be discussing what librarians, publishers and researchers need to know about the ground-breaking scheme – as well as the wider ramifications for the country’s scientific community and those in the rest of the Global South.

Anindita joins Vivek Mehra, Founder and CEO, Vikramshila Education; Nidhi Gulati, Country Communications Director, Springer Nature; and Prof Ramesh Gaur, Professor and Dean, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

We are also happy to announce that the event is now being supported by Frontiers, as well as the American Psychological Association (APA).