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e-ShodhSindhu

Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the Ministry of HRD (now renamed as Ministry of Education) has formed e-ShodhSindhu merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium.The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.

Aims and Objectives

The main objective of the e-Shodh Sindhu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources is to provide access to qualitative electronic resources including full-text, bibliographic and factual databases to academic institutions at a lower rates of subscription. The major aims and objectives of the e-Shodh Sindhu are as follows:

• Setting-up e-Shodh Sindhu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources by augmenting and strengthening activities and services offered by three MHRD-funded Consortia;
• Develop a formidable collection of e-journals, e-journal archives and e-books on perpetual access basis;
• Monitor and promote usage of e-resources in member universities, colleges and technical institutions in India through awareness and training programmes;
• Provide access to subscription-based scholarly information (e-books and e-journals) to all educational institutions;
• Provide access to scholarly content available in open access through subject portals and subject gateways;
• Bridge digital divide and move towards an information-rich society;
• Provide access to selected e-resources to additional institutions including open universities and MHRD-funded institutions that are not covered under existing consortia;
• Take-up additional activities and services that require collaborative platform and are not being performed by existing Consortia; and
• Moving towards developing a National Electronic Library with electronic journals and electronic books as its major building blocks.

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One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)

The Government of India has announced the "One Nation One Subscription" initiative, a groundbreaking step toward democratizing access to knowledge and research resources. Its aim is to provide access to scholarly research content to HEIs in the country. ONOS intends to acquire national licenses for e-journal/database subscriptions from most of the prominent STEM and social sciences publishers and content providers by combining multiple institutional and consortia-based subscriptions. Concessions on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publications is also envisioned as part of ONOS. With "One Nation One Subscription" India takes a significant leap toward achieving its vision of inclusive education and research, ensuring that every individual has the tools to learn, innovate, and excel. This initiative aligns with the NEP and underscores the commitment to creating an empowered and informed society. Implementation of ONOS, which is expected to benefit all academic and R & D institutions including universities, colleges, research organisations in the country, will be done in a phased manner.

Background

Currently, access to subscription journals is acquired through library consortia of government departments, academic and R&D institutions; and through individual subscriptions by various institutions. Government, academic and R&D institutions are subscribing to approx. 8000 e-journals from various publishers. Also there are resources that are subscribed by multiple consortia and institutions. ONOS facilitates centralised access to scholarly content of 30 publishers thus eliminating duplication in subscriptions.

Executing Agency

INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, an Autonomous IUC (Inter-University Centre) of UGC has been designated as the implementation and executing agency for ONOS by the Core Committee to oversee implementation of ONOS. INFLIBNET Centre is currently the executing agency for the largest library consortium in the country i.e. e-Shodh Sindhu (ESS) which is under the Ministry of Education.

Beneficiary Institutions

It is envisaged to expand access to e-resources to all 6500+ government academic and R&D institutions which is nearly three times of current beneficiaries across 10 consortia in the country. The number of beneficiary users will be increased from 56.7 Lakh to 177.82 Lakh from 2360 institutions to 6500+ institutions respectively.

No. of Publishers & Journals

30 publishers of full-text journals, which are subscribed by at least one of the 10 library consortia or self-subscribed by the current beneficiary institutes have been selected. It is envisaged to acquire licenses from journal publishers for the full collection of journals published by them. Hence the no. of journals is expected to increase to about 13,000 journals.

Access to Journals

INFLIBNET has been tasked with the implementation of ONOS. Access to the journals will be made available through the campus IP address of the institute or outside campus through INFED Access Federation set up at INFLIBNET. The resources can be accessed through any device including mobiles.

More Details

Click here to visit the the official website of ONOS for get recent updates.

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 INFLIBNET

 Objective and Functions

The primary objectives of INFLIBNET as envisaged in Memorandum of Association are:

• To promote and establish communication facilities to improve capability in information transfer and access, that provide support to scholarship, learning, research and academic pursuit through cooperation and involvement of agencies concerned.
• To establish INFLIBNET: Information and Library Network a computer communication network for linking libraries and information centres in universities, deemed to be universities, colleges, UGC information centres, institutions of national importance and R & D institutions, etc. avoiding duplication of efforts.
  1. to promote and implement computerization of operations and services in the libraries and information centres of the country, following a uniform standard;
  2. to evolve standards and uniform guidelines in techniques, methods, procedures, computer hardware and software, services and promote their adoption in actual practice by all libraries, in order to facilitate pooling, sharing and exchange of information towards optimal use of resources and facilities:
  3. to evolve a national network interconnecting various libraries and information centres in the country and to improve capability in information handling and service;
  4. to provide reliable access to document collection of libraries by creating on-line union catalogue of serials, theses/ dissertations, books, monographs and non-book materials (manuscripts, audio-visuals, computer data, multimedia, etc.) in various libraries in India:
  5. to provide access to bibliographic information sources with citations, abstracts, etc. through indigenously created databases of the Sectoral Information Centres of NISSAT, UGC Information Centres, City Networks and such others and by establishing gateways for on-line accessing of national and international databases held by national and international information networks and centres respectively;
  6. to develop new methods and techniques for archival of valuable information available as manuscripts and information documents in difference Indian languages, in the form of digital images using high density storage media;
  7. to optimize information resource utilization through shared cataloguing, inter-library loan service, catalogue production, collection development and thus avoiding duplication in acquisition to the extent possible;
  8. to enable the users dispersed all over the country, irrespective of location and distance, to have access to information regarding serials, theses/dissertation, books, monographic and non-book materials by locating the sources wherefrom available and to obtain it through the facilities of INFLIBNET and union catalogue of documents;
  9. to create databases of projects, institutions, specialists, etc. for providing on-line information service;
  10. to encourage co-operation among libraries, documentation centres and information centres in the country, so that the resources can be poled for the benefit of helping the weaker resource centres by stronger ones; and
  11. to train and develop human resources in the field of computerized library operations and networking to establish, manage and sustain INFLIBNET.
• To facilitate academic communication amongst scientist, engineers, social scientists, academics, faculties, researchers and students through electronic mail, file transfer, computer/audio/video conferencing, etc
• To undertake system design and studies in the field of communications, computer networking, information handling and data management;
• To establish appropriate control and monitoring system for the communication network and organize maintenance;
• To collaborate with institutions, libraries, information centres and other organizations in India and abroad in the field relevant to the objectives of the Centre;
• To promote R&D and develop necessary facilities and create technical positions for realizing the objectives of the Centre;
• To generate revenue by providing consultancies and information services; and
• To do all other such things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the above objectives.

 

Daily Important Day

 World Student Day  birth anniversary of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalaam who was born in 15 october 1931 in Rameshwaram also connected to DRDO and ISRO and Agni missile after his death we celebrate this day.

International Day for Rural Women declared by Beijing declaration's 4th number conference in 1995 which is recognized by United Nations and related to Sustainable Development Goal No. 1 No Poverty, Goal No. 2 Zero Hunger and Goal No. 5 Gender equality Goal No. 13 Climate Action. 

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 Indian Postal Day....

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 World Cotton Day

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Indian Air-force Day

World Dyslexia Day 

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 One Nation One Subscription

Guidelines on Payment of Article Publishing Charges

1. Background

1.1. 

The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), a central sector scheme of Government of India, with the Department of Higher Education (DHE) as the nodal department, was approved in November 2024 and has been launched from 1st January 2025. The ONOS portal provides access to scholarly research articles from journals published by the 30 publishers included in the ONOS. The access is available to all students, faculty and researchers of central government and state government Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Research & Development (R&D) organisations of

The central government.

1.2.

Prior to ONOS, there were 10 different library consortia who had their own subscription models. In addition, many government HEIs used to have their own subscription for some of these journals. After ONOS, all these have been merged into a single ONOS consortia. All the participating Ministries in the Government of India has pooled their resources for funding the ONOS and the remaining fund is being provided by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The ONOS portal has been developed and maintained by the Inflibnet, an Inter-University-Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC)

The ONOS scheme not only provides access to journal articles but also supports the payment of Article Publishing Charges (APC) for selected high-quality open access journals, with central funding managed by the executing agency. Starting in 2025, these guidelines aim to streamline APC payments for eligible authors—regular faculty, students, researchers, and principal investigators—who are the first or corresponding authors and have made significant intellectual contributions to the article. Only research articles accepted in the top 1% of fully open access journals, as determined by SCOPUS indicators, qualify for APC support. Authors must apply through the ONOS portal, ensuring authenticity and providing required declarations to prevent duplicate claims. Payments are processed directly to publishers through the PFMS system, with TDS and other applicable taxes deducted at source. The program follows a first-come, first-served policy and prioritizes inclusivity by potentially capping the number of articles funded per author or institution, ensuring broad access to the benefits of the scheme.

1.3. While providing access to the journal articles have been the major component of the ONOS, the Article Publishing Charges / Article Processing Charges (APC) is also an approved component of the ONOS scheme. It was approved that negotiated APCs for selected good quality open access journals will be centrally funded through the executing agency for ONOS. The list of such journals shall be decided by groups of subject experts.
1.4. This document is prepared after detailed deliberation at the Core Committee of the ONOS. The guidelines will be followed starting from the year 2025 to see its usefulness in addressing the APC payment related issues. Further modifications, under the guidance of the Core Committee, shall be undertaken as and when necessary.
 

2. Guidelines for payment of APC:

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2.1. Eligible authors: Regular faculty, students, researchers, Principal Investigators of the Higher Education Institutions and R&D Institutions with active registration in ONOS are eligible to apply. The corresponding institution nodal officer of ONOS will have to authenticate that the applicant is a Bonafide regular employee/ student of the Institution. In particular, all of the following conditions are to be fulfilled:

 
2.1.1. The applicant must be the first author or corresponding author of the article for which APC payment request is being applied for.

 
2.1.2. The applicant should submit documentary evidence regarding acceptance of
publication while submitting the application regarding payment of APC charges.

 
2.1.3. The application should be sent with proper authentication from the Head of the Institution that the applicant is a Bonafide regular employee/ student of the HEI/R&D Institution.

 
2.1.4. The applicant should have made significant intellectual contribution to the article. A combined declaration from all authors in this regard needs to be uploaded as per specified format (enclosed with this guideline) while applying for payment of APC charges by ONOS.

 
2.1.5. The applicant must ensure that multiple claims are not submitted for the same article.

 
2.2. Eligible Journals: Fully open access journals which are in top 1% as per any of the 3 indicators: CiteScore, SNIP or SJR published by SCOPUS are eligible for payment of APC from ONOS. In other words, list of top 1% journal for each of the 27 main subject areas given in SCOPUS will be first prepared and then the fully open access journals appearing in this top 1% journal list will be eligible. The Open Access journals can be either from the 30 publishers providing access to their published journals in ONOS or other publishers.

2.2.1. The list of journals which shall be eligible for the payment of APC charges will be prepared every year by Inflibnet in consultation with the Department of Higher Education (DHE) and made available on the ONOS website.

2.2.2. If a journal appears in the list in one year (say in the year 2025) but gets excluded from the list next year (say year 2026), articles accepted for publication in the year 2025 will remain eligible for payment of APC, even if the actual payment happens in 2026.

2.3. Eligible Articles: Only research articles accepted for publication/ published in eligible journals are eligible to apply for APC payment.

2.4. Mode of Payment: Once an article is accepted for publication, the author will apply on the specified section of the ONOS portal giving details as per requirement. Once the application is accepted for payment, the same will be intimated to the author and the publisher (using the address of communication provided by the author). Actual payment to the publisher’s bank account will be made directly using the PFMS mechanism. TDS and other taxes will be deducted at source as per Government of India rules/ directives in this regard.
 

2.5. The workflow for APC will be as follows for Authors:
2.5.1. Registration on the ONOS APC page using Institutional email id of the author through OTP
2.5.2. Select from the drop-down of predefined list of journals and submit details of accepted article with date of submission, communication of acceptance etc.
2.5.3. Verification of the Author by ONOS/corresponding Institute for their institutional affiliation with any ONOS Eligible Institution
2.5.4. Declaration of the applicant along with joint declaration by all authors that no claim from any other source (government or private, Indian or outside) for payment of APC charge has been made or will be made for this article. If any such payment is received for the same, the author shall be liable for refund of the APC charge received from ONOS, in addition to other administrative/ legal actions, as deemed fit.
2.5.5. Submission of details for payment or invoice for payment through central account directly to the account of the journal.
2.5.6. Acceptance by ONOS based on fund availability or rejection of the request with intimation to author
2.5.7. Payment by INFLIBNET Centre
2.5.8. Intimation to Author with details of payments made
2.5.9. Confirmation from Author about publication of the article. An author can apply for APC payment only after confirmation of publication of article (s) for which ONOS has previously paid.

3. Additional Guidelines for Acceptance

 
3.1. APC payment will be made on a first-come, first-served basis, considering all subject groups and all journals eligible for payment as a single group. No separate allocation with respect to any subject group/ journal type will be done.
3.2. Payment will be made only for APC fees applicable for publishing in fully Open Access mode.
3.3. APC fees will be available only for the articles where first author/ corresponding author is a regular employee or student of the ONOS member institute. Moreover, the applicant should have made a significant intellectual contribution to the article. A combined declaration from all authors in this regard needs to be made while applying for payment of APC charges by ONOS.
3.4. If funding is available from the funding agency or from Government grants for
payment of Open Access Fees, the article will not be eligible for APC charges from ONOS. The authors will have to give a declaration to this effect. If the declaration is found to be false at any future time, necessary administrative and legal proceedings will be initiated against the person giving the declaration.
3.5. To ensure that the benefits of APC charge payment from ONOS reach more HEIs and researchers, the ONOS Committee reserves the right to put a ceiling on the maximum number of articles from a single author/ Institution which shall be provided APC
charge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Quiz

Q. Public Libraries and e-Groverment services produced by?

Ans. American Library Association 

Q. Attackers monitors network packets modifies them and insert them back into networks.

Ans.Man-In-the-Middle

Q.Big three of Library classification systems

A.DDC

B.UDC

C.Library of Congress Classification 

Q.Modern library classification is division of knowledge by

Ans.Discipline 

Q. Who defines "An Enumerative scheme for classification consists essentially of a simple schedule enumerating all subjects of the past, the present and participated future.

Ans. Rangnathan 

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 World Translation Day

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 DIKW, or the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom model, is a framework that shows how raw data transforms into meaningful understanding through distinct hierarchical stages: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Starting with unprocessed facts and figures (Data), the model progresses to organized context (Information), then to interpreted understanding and patterns (Knowledge), and finally to the application of that knowledge to make sound judgments and decisions (Wisdom).  

The Four Levels of the DIKW Pyramid

 

• Data:

  This is the foundational level, consisting of raw, unorganized facts, figures, and symbols. For example, a pizza bakery's daily order numbers or topping requests are data points. 

        Information:

When data is organized, processed, and put into context, it becomes information. In             the pizza bakery example, combining order numbers with customer requests creates information, like knowing which toppings are popular. 

     Knowledge:

This level involves understanding the patterns and relationships within information through analysis and interpretation. For instance, a baker gaining knowledge might understand that specific topping combinations lead to higher customer satisfaction. 

       Wisdom:

The highest level, wisdom, is the ability to apply knowledge and experience to make sound, insightful decisions and judgments. A wise baker would use this knowledge of customer preferences to innovate new menu items or optimize operations for a more positive impact. 

 

Daily Quiz

 Q.The term for patents in India is years

Ans.20

Q. The Indian Patents and Designs Act 1911 came into force in..................

Ans. 1912

Q. Indian Patent Information Retrieval System (IPAIRS) is a free search portal launched by the Indian Patent office version 2.0 was released in April........

Ans. 2012

Q. Google Patents was launched in

Ans. 2006

Q. Espacenet developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) offers free access to more then 70 million patent documents worldwide. the coverage goes as far back as.........

Ans. 1836

Q. "Industrial Designs" related to the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of a useful product

Ans. True

Q.WIPO established in

Ans.1967

Q.Copyright protection can be applied to

Ans. Motion pictures or audio visual works

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 Consider the following statements with reference to vulture network portal

1. it is India's first cloud-based platform dedicated exclusively to vulture conservation

2. it has been developed by We foundation India in collaboration with Gauhati University

3. it provides real-time tracking of vulture nesting sites across India 

 

Ans.  

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Q. Derived from the consideration of goals and their consequences

Ans. Pragmatism 

Q. Derived from observation, perception and experience

Ans. Empiticism

Q. ABX model- refers to Newcomb's model. it is called as an ABX model of communication, as it works in a triangular format of A-B-X system

Ans.Ture

Q.SMCR model of communication given by

Ans. Berlo

Q. The Mathematical model of communication given by

Ans.Shanon and Weaver 

Q. General system theory- it proposes a way to determine the underlying rules governing all systems, regardless of their particular instantiation. This was put forth by

Ans.Ludwig von Bertalanffy 

Q. Who said communication is the process by which people interactively create sustain and manage meaning?

Ans.Conrad & Poole

Q. Who defines theory as a set of inter-related propositions that  suggest why events occur in the manner that they do

Ans.Hoover

Q.The term semiotics was introduced into the English language by?

Ans.John Locke

Q.In which year Norbert Wiener coined the term cybernetics

Ans.1950

 

 

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 Judicial activism originated and developed in USA coined in 1947 by Arthur MS. Jr. an American historian and educator. role played by the judiciary to force the other two organs of the government (legislature and executive) to discharge their constitution duties PIL is an outcome of Judicial activism.

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 Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) was an American information scientist and entrepreneur who revolutionised scientific communication by founding the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1960 and creating the Science Citation Index, the precursor to today's Web of Science.

He pioneered the concept of citation indexing and developed the journal impact factor, fundamentally transforming how scientific literature is evaluated and accessed. Garfield earned a PhD in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 and established numerous influential bibliographic tools, including Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.

His visionary work on citation analysis anticipated modern information retrieval algorithms like Google's PageRank by three decades, earning him recognition as "the grandfather of Google". Garfield's innovations laid the foundation for modern scientometrics and bibliometrics, making him one of the most influential figures in 20th-century information science

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The Election Atlas of India is primarily compiled by which expert?

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Dr. R.K. Thukral

Yogendra Yadav

Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

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Are we equipping our users to navigate the AI era as future-ready youth?

Libraries are becoming more and more valuable every day; they are now places where people desire to spend time reading books, preparing for the future, or developing their careers. In higher schools like IIM, IIT students are not only using libraries for their course or to succeed in tests but also they are preparing for the other exams like UPSC and other higher exams.

With the help of generative AI, library patrons can employ contemporary technologies for daily operations like issue/return and more.

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 Sustainable development goal

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• In June 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more than 178 countries adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
• Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Summit led to the elaboration of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
• The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships.
• At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document "The Future We Want" in which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The Rio +20 outcome also contained other measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states and more.
• In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-member Open Working Group to develop a proposal on the SDGs.
• In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on the post-2015 development agenda. The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 SDGs at its core, at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015.
• 2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:
  • Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015)
  • Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development (July 2015)
  • Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.
  • Paris Agreement on Climate Change (December 2015)
• Now, the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.

Today, the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, including water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science and technology, the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), partnerships and Small Island Developing States. DSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. In order to make the 2030 Agenda a reality, broad ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.

Follow DSDG on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sustdev and on X at @SustDev.

Implementation Progress

Every year, the UN Secretary General presents an annual SDG Progress report, which is developed in cooperation with the UN System, and based on the global indicator framework and data produced by national statistical systems and information collected at the regional level.

Additionally, the Global Sustainable Development Report is produced once every four years to inform the quadrennial SDG review deliberations at the General Assembly. It is written by an Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the Secretary-General.