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About this Chapter

The Indian Chapter of EASE serves as a platform for discussing the needs and challenges of the Indian scholarly publishing and scientific editing community; for identifying resources and activities that would help fulfil the needs and address the challenges; and for offering regular training activities, thematic meetings, and useful resources for the community. Through its work, the chapter supports professional development and collaboration within the regional community while facilitating exchanges with global EASE members in order to align with EASE’s goals of meeting global standards in scholarly publishing and boosting the quality of science editing.

The Indian Chapter of EASE was established in Spring 2022, by Dr Sushil Kumar. In Spring 2023, the Chapter leadership was refreshed with Vivek Kumar taking over as Chair and Roohi Ghosh taking over as Vice Chair.

In Autumn 2024, Anita Nagarajan took over as Chair. A new expanded leadership team was appointed and a number of activities were undertaken.

 

Aims and objectives of the Chapter

The Chapter has defined the following aims and objectives:

  • To promote awareness of EASE
  • To organise training activities and thematic meetings in India for the scientific and scholarly editing and publishing community
  • To offer training to researchers, authors, reviewers, editorial teams, editorial office staff and editorial advisory boards, thereby improving the standard and quality of scientific journals in India
  • To support scientific journals in meeting international standards
  • To represent the Indian science editing community within EASE

 

Planned activities in 2025–2026

  1. Hold regular meetings of the leadership team to discuss current and new initiatives of the chapter
  2. Promote the chapter and raise awareness of EASE and EASE India’s resources and training for authors, peer reviewers, manuscript editors and journal editors
  3. Increase awareness of the importance of ethics and integrity in scholarly publishing in India and plan activities to achieve this goal
  4. Deliver EASE member webinars on a variety of subjects, and develop new training/courses/content to meet local needs
  5. Translate EASE resources into Indian languages.

 

As our planned activities are confirmed and delivered, we will promote them on these pages, see our Upcoming Activities and Achievements panels.