ElsevierWolters KluwerUpToDateBMJWileySpringer NatureMcGraw HillThiemeAmerican Medical AssociationOperative DentistryEuropean Respiratory SocietyCambridge University PressOxford University Press
Welcome to ISA
India's Premier Academic Knowledge Partner
35+ years of trusted partnerships with AIIMS campuses, IITs, and 100+ premier Indian government institutions. Authorised reseller for 50+ international publishers. Consortium manager for national consortia serving thousands of students and faculty.
100+Institutions Served
50+Publisher Partners
50k+Students & Faculty
Fig. 01 — One agency between them
Journals & Clinical Platforms
Trusted Knowledge Platforms. One Experienced Partner.
UpToDate, ClinicalKey, Scopus and more — sourced and supported for every AIIMS campus, IIT and government medical college ISA serves.
35+ Years in Print & Online
From Print Journals to AI-Assisted Research
Three and a half decades bridging global publishers and Indian institutions — long before the internet, and long after.
50+ Publisher Partnerships
Direct Lines to the World's Leading Publishers
Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, McGraw Hill, Springer and more — authorised, signed, and supported end to end.
100+ Institutions Served
Trusted by AIIMS, IITs and Beyond
A national network of medical colleges and universities relying on ISA for uninterrupted journal and platform access.
Consortium-Wide Access
Five Consortia. One Point of Contact.
NML–ERMED, ICMR, NTR-MEDNET, UP and HELINET — ISA manages consortium-wide journal and platform access end to end.
Since 1990
Knowledge, delivered where it is needed.
A partnership firm serving India's premier medical, technical and research institutions — from AIIMS campuses and IITs to national consortia under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Vendor coordination, licence administration and user training, handled end to end.
Fig. 02From publisher agreement to a live campus
The same four stages run behind every subscription ISA administers, whether the order arrives as a direct purchase order, a GeM indent or a consortium allocation. Nothing reaches a reader until deployment is verified.
ISA Portfolio
Clinical Decision Support & Research Platforms
Curated access to the world's most trusted clinical, research, and academic knowledge resources.
Point of care
UpToDate
Clinical decision support tool trusted by medical colleges and hospitals across India. Evidence-based recommendations for patient care.
Point of care
ClinicalKey AI
ClinicalKey AI provides cited, evidence-based answers to clinical questions in seconds, with direct links to supporting sources.
Research & discovery
Scopus
A comprehensive multidisciplinary abstract and citation database with more than 100 million records. Essential for research impact tracking and publication strategy.
Point of care
BMJ Best Practice
Evidence-based clinical guidance developed by BMJ and specialist clinicians. Decision support at point of care for diagnosis and management.
Research & discovery
Wiley Online Library
1000+ peer-reviewed journals across sciences, medicine, and social sciences. Current awareness and archival access.
Curriculum & teaching
BMJ Case Reports
Peer-reviewed case library with 80,000+ indexed cases across specialties. Essential for teaching and clinical learning.
Curriculum & teaching
AccessMedicine
McGraw Hill's comprehensive medical education platform. Integrated textbooks, case studies, and self-assessment for UG and PG programmes.
Evidence synthesis
JAMA Network
The American Medical Association's journal collection — JAMA and 11 specialty titles. Peer-reviewed clinical research, systematic reviews, and practice guidance across every major specialty.
Evidence synthesis
Cochrane Library
The definitive source of systematic reviews and meta-analyses for evidence-based practice. Subscribed by ICMR institutions through ISA.
Curriculum & teaching
Thieme
Anatomy, surgery, radiology and clinical reference titles. E-book collections and journals widely adopted across Indian medical curricula.
Research & discovery
OUP e-books (Oxford Academic)
Oxford University Press's e-book collections on the Oxford Academic platform — scholarly monographs and major reference works spanning medicine, life sciences and allied health.
Curriculum & teaching
Springer e-books (SpringerLink)
Springer Nature's medical and life-science e-book collections on SpringerLink — textbooks, major reference works and clinical handbooks widely used across postgraduate curricula.
Fig. 03What each platform is actually for
ISA’s own reading of where each platform earns its place in a library’s budget. Most institutions run one primary point-of-care tool alongside one research database; the rest of the portfolio fills teaching and evidence-synthesis needs.
For Academic & Medical Institutions
Complete Access Solutions
Institutional subscriptions, GeM procurement, or consortium membership. A single partner for knowledge infrastructure.
How ISA Serves Institutions
Direct Institutional Subscriptions
Institutional subscriptions to clinical decision support (UpToDate, ClinicalKey) and research platforms (Scopus, Wiley Online Library). ISA manages licence administration, user access, troubleshooting, and annual renewal negotiations.
GeM Procurement
ISA is registered on the Government e-Marketplace. Institutions can raise GeM indents directly, with ISA fulfilling contracts at GeM rates. Streamlined procurement for government medical colleges and central universities.
Consortium Membership
Join national consortia managed by ISA — the NML–ERMED Consortium under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, ICMR, and state-level consortia — to access premium resources at consortium rates. One collective subscription per state or region, administered by ISA on behalf of all member institutions. Where a new consortium is being formed, ISA designs and implements the programme end-to-end — from initial structure and publisher negotiation through to full institutional rollout.
Training & Support
Onsite UpToDate training, platform orientation, and ongoing technical support. ISA conducts training sessions for faculty and clinicians at your institution, coordinated with the institution's CME programme where applicable.
Access & Discovery Support
ISA handles the technical side of access, not just the commercial side. IP-range authentication setup, OpenAthens- and Shibboleth-compatible single sign-on, proxy and link-resolver configuration, and off-campus access troubleshooting are managed by ISA's technical team — so library staff aren't left debugging a broken login on their own. ISA also works directly with Wolters Kluwer on discovery-layer integration, embeds point-of-care tools into hospital patient management systems, and sets up remote access through OpenAthens' MyAthens portal and similar platforms.
Open Access & Transformative Agreements
ISA also administers Read & Publish and transformative agreements alongside standard subscriptions — tracking APC eligibility, funder compliance and open-access output as part of the same relationship.
An institution can reach the same endpoint by whichever route its procurement rules allow. ISA carries the licence administration in all four cases.
Fig. 05Named partner institutions by region
A selection of the AIIMS campuses, IITs and health science universities ISA serves directly. Regional grouping only — not a map, and not a complete list.
Institutional Success Snapshot
AIIMS Campuses, IITs & 40+ Government Medical Colleges
98%
Retention in Renewals
4,500+
Daily Active Users Across Partner Campuses
Consortium Management
National & State-Level Knowledge Consortia
ISA manages five major consortia serving 100+ medical colleges, central universities, and health science institutions across India.
National Consortia
NML – ERMED
📍 National Medical Library, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
The National Medical Library, New Delhi, administers the ERMED Consortium — Electronic Resources in Medicine — under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, serving government medical colleges, central health institutions and central universities nationwide. Member institutions receive AccessMedicine, the BMJ package and MedOne, with ClinicalKey at selected sites. ISA manages vendor relations, licence administration, tier classification and renewal coordination on behalf of NML.
75+
Institutions
7.5L+
User Base
State Consortia
NTR-MEDNET Consortium
📍 Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
NTR-MEDNET is the digital library network established in July 2008 by Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, sharing electronic medical resources, e-journals and databases across affiliated medical, dental, nursing and physiotherapy teaching institutions in Andhra Pradesh. ClinicalKey is subscribed collectively for the whole network. ISA handles unified procurement and annual licence administration on behalf of the university.
2008
Established
25+
Institutions
National Consortia
ICMR Consortium
📍 Indian Council of Medical Research
The Indian Council of Medical Research consortium covers national medical research institutes and research centres, with the Cochrane Library subscribed collectively through ISA. Shared access supports evidence synthesis, systematic review work and clinical guideline development across every member site. ISA manages procurement, licence administration and annual renewal on the council’s behalf.
22
Sites
3L+
User Base
State Consortia
UP Consortium
📍 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow
Coordinated by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, Uttar Pradesh (ABVMU), Lucknow, this consortium covers government medical colleges and health science institutions across Uttar Pradesh. ClinicalKey is subscribed for every member institution under a single collective licence. ISA provides vendor coordination, licence administration and renewal management on behalf of the coordinating institute.
30+
Colleges
6L+
User Base
State Consortia
HELINET Consortium
📍 Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru
HELINET — the Health Library Network — connects every institutional library affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, across medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and the AYUSH and allied science faculties. The consortium subscribes e-books, e-journals, multimedia learning material, point-of-care tools, drug databases and question banks, and consolidates member dissertations and theses in one place. Every faculty member, student and librarian receives individual credentials, with remote access from any device rather than campus network only.
All
RGUHS Faculties
24×7
Remote Access
Fig. 06Twelve colleges, one agreement
The saving is administrative before it is financial. Twelve separate procurements mean twelve negotiations, twelve invoices and twelve renewal dates for the university to track. A consortium collapses that to one of each — and the aggregated volume is what earns the discount.
Why Consortial Models Win
For state-level health science universities and multi-college networks, a consortium model is more efficient and cost-effective than direct individual procurement:
Up to 40% Lower Pricing
Collective procurement drives publisher discounts of roughly 30-40% below institutional rates, with consortium pricing typically at 60-70% of what individual institutions would pay.
Single Point of Contact
ISA handles all vendor negotiations, licence management, and escalations. The university or state body receives one invoice and one annual report.
Unified Access Policy
Standardised user access, password policies, and compliance across all member institutions. Easier to scale and maintain security standards.
Coordinated Training
ISA conducts system-wide training, coordinates CME events, and facilitates best-practice sharing across member colleges.
For Institutions & Publishers
Open Access & Transformative Agreements
As publisher terms shift from subscribe-to-read toward combined read-and-publish models, ISA administers that shift alongside the subscriptions it already manages — one relationship, not two.
What ISA Manages On Your Behalf
Transformative & Read-and-Publish Agreements
ISA negotiates and administers Read & Publish and transformative agreements with publisher partners, so an institution's open-access output and its subscription access sit under a single contract rather than two separate arrangements.
APC Eligibility & Administration
Corresponding-author eligibility, article processing charge quotas, and voucher or waiver codes are tracked and applied at the point of manuscript acceptance, not reconciled after the fact.
Funder & Institutional Compliance Tracking
Open-access output is tracked against UGC, ICMR and individual funder mandates, giving institutions a clear compliance record without building that tracking capability in-house.
Combined Reporting
Open-access publishing activity is folded into the same COUNTER 5 usage reporting ISA already runs, so a renewal conversation accounts for what an institution reads and what it publishes.
In Practice
BMJ Read & Publish
One example of the agreements ISA arranges: BMJ's Read & Publish membership model gives an institution a full switch to open-access publishing for original research, with no per-article processing charge borne by individual authors. Highlights of the model:
100% article processing charge waiver on original research accepted by any BMJ journal within the agreement term
No publishing fees passed on to individual researchers, students, or faculty
Monthly COUNTER 5 usage and publication-output reporting bundled into the same agreement
Funder open-access mandate compliance built in via Creative Commons licensing
Fig. 10Where ISA sits in a transformative agreement
The same cycle runs alongside ISA's existing subscription administration for the title — open access tracked as part of one relationship, not a separate arrangement.
Why This Matters Now
The Shift Publishers Are Making
A growing share of ISA's publisher partners now offer transformative or Read & Publish terms alongside traditional subscriptions. Where an institution's authors publish under these agreements, article processing charges are absorbed within the negotiated terms rather than billed separately after acceptance.
What It Means for Indian Institutions
For AIIMS campuses, IITs and consortium members, open-access output can be tracked and reported alongside subscription usage — useful both for internal compliance review and for demonstrating value at renewal, without adding a separate administrative burden on the library.
Considering a transformative agreement, or need to understand what a publisher's Read & Publish terms mean for your institution's compliance reporting?
For Global Publishers
India Market Access & Consortium Distribution
30+ years of direct relationships with AIIMS, IITs, and 100+ premier academic and medical institutions.
Four Partnership Models
Authorised Reseller
Direct channel partnership for institutional subscriptions. ISA manages sales, institutional support, and licence administration across our network. 50+ active publisher partnerships.
Consortium Manager
ISA supports publishers seeking participation in national consortia such as NML–ERMED and ICMR, and in state consortia, subject to institutional evaluation and applicable procurement processes. A single point of invoice and liability, with scaled distribution across 100+ institutions once onboarded.
Print Distribution
Logistics and order fulfilment for print journals, textbooks, and monographs to institutional libraries across India. Warehousing in Delhi and Lucknow.
Exclusive to ISA
Exclusive Distribution
For a small number of publishers — currently Operative Dentistry and the European Respiratory Society — ISA is the sole authorised distributor for India, with no parallel channel. A single point of contact for the publisher, and a single, consistent price and support relationship for every Indian institution.
Fig. 07The subscription year
What ISA carries for you
A publisher signs once. Everything after that — contracting under Indian procurement rules, IP registration, credential issue, onsite training and the usage reporting that justifies next year’s renewal — sits with ISA.
COUNTER 5 and SUSHI reporting run continuously rather than at renewal, so a title’s performance in India is visible long before the conversation about price.
The cycle repeats for every title in every institution ISA administers.
Why Publishers Choose ISA
Deep Market Access
Direct relationships with procurement heads, library directors, and chief medical officers at AIIMS campuses, IITs, and government medical colleges. 35+ years of trusted partnerships.
Consortium Distribution at Scale
ISA supports publishers seeking participation in national and state consortium opportunities — 2 national consortia and multiple state consortia, covering 100+ institutions — subject to institutional evaluation and applicable procurement processes.
Usage Analytics & Reporting
COUNTER 5 usage reporting and SUSHI automated reporting for all consortium and institutional subscriptions. Real-time dashboards for publisher performance tracking.
Institutional Support
ISA handles onsite training, technical troubleshooting, and user adoption initiatives on your behalf. You focus on content; we manage relationships.
ISA's Global Publisher Network
ISA holds direct, signed authorisation with each of the publishers below — flagship clinical and research platforms alongside specialist and exclusive journal collections.
Clinical & research platforms
Elsevier
Authorised agent for Elsevier's clinical and research products, including ClinicalKey and Scopus, across Indian academic and medical institutions.
Clinical decision support
Wolters Kluwer
Authorised dealer for Wolters Kluwer Health's medical journals and clinical platforms, including UpToDate.
BMJ
Clinical & research platforms
BMJ
Authorised channel partner for BMJ's journals, BMJ Learning, and clinical decision-support platforms across Indian academic and medical institutions.
Curriculum & teaching
McGraw Hill
Authorised reseller for McGraw Hill's medical education platforms, including AccessMedicine, to Indian medical colleges.
Curriculum & teaching
Springer Nature
Authorised agent for Springer Nature's e-book and journal collections on SpringerLink, covering textbooks, major reference works, and clinical handbooks for Indian academic and medical institutions.
Exclusive to ISA
European Respiratory Society
ISA is ERS's sole authorised subscriptions agent in India, promoting and marketing institutional access to the European Respiratory Journal, the ERS Monograph, and the ERS Handbook series — the Society's core respiratory medicine references.
Exclusive to ISA
Operative Dentistry
Official journal of the Academy of Operative Dentistry, the American Academy of Gold Foil Operators, and the Academy of R.V. Tucker Study Clubs. ISA is the exclusive Indian distributor, handling all new, renewal, and back-issue requests.
Clinical & research platforms
Oxford University Press
Authorised agent for OUP's online journals and products across Indian academic and research institutions.
Research & academic journals
Wiley
Authorised distributor for Wiley's online journals & e-books, with a signed agent authorisation covering institutional customers across India.
Our Story
Three and a Half Decades of Knowledge Partnership
ISA was founded in 1990 to bridge access gaps between Indian academic institutions and global knowledge resources.
The ISA Mission
To democratise access to world-class clinical decision support, research platforms, and academic resources for Indian medical colleges, central universities, and premier government institutions. Through direct reseller partnerships, consortium management, and advocacy, ISA ensures that every qualified student and faculty member — from AIIMS to community health centres — has access to the knowledge tools they need.
Our Core Values
Integrity: Transparent vendor relations and disclosed partnerships. Accessibility: Knowledge should never be gatekept by cost. Partnership: We succeed only when our institution and publisher partners succeed. Long-term relationships over short-term transactions.
ISA Today
100+
Institutions Served AIIMS campuses, IITs, central universities, and government medical colleges across India
50+
Publisher Partners Direct authorised relationships with Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, BMJ, Wiley, McGraw Hill, and others
50k+
Users Covered Students, faculty, and clinicians with access to UpToDate, Scopus, and research platforms across partner institutions
5
Managed Consortia NML–ERMED and ICMR nationally, plus NTR-MEDNET, UP and HELINET state consortia
Fig. 081990 to today
ISA has traded continuously as a partnership firm since 1990.
Fig. 09Credentials held
Verifiable on request. ISO certification covers ISA’s quality management system; GeM registration permits direct government procurement; FEMA compliance governs the foreign remittances every international subscription requires. ISA also holds membership of the Federation of Publishers' & Booksellers' Associations in India (FPBAI) and the Delhi State Booksellers' & Publishers' Association.
In Their Words
“A long-term, dependable vendor relationship — consistent and professional, year after year.”
Central Library, premier government medical college
“Online access has stayed regular and largely uninterrupted, even for the resource our users rely on most.”
Central Library, national research institute
“Prompt support and timely delivery, with a genuinely professional approach to every request.”
Central Library, leading technical institute
News & Knowledge
Sector Briefing for Indian Institutions
What is changing in clinical AI, usage standards, open access and research integrity — and what it means for procurement and library planning. Compiled from primary sources.
Last reviewed 4 August 2026
Clinical AI — Point of Care
ClosedCorpus · no open-web sources
1-clickSource topic & reasoning shown
LexidrugDrug information integrated
2025Launched · Wolters Kluwer Health
Clinical Decision Support
UpToDate Expert AI: generative answers drawn only from authored, peer-reviewed content
Wolters Kluwer launched UpToDate Expert AI in late 2025 as a generative layer over UpToDate’s existing editorial corpus. Its design point is that it is closed to the open web — answers are generated only from UpToDate’s expert-authored, peer-reviewed content, with one-click visibility of the source topic and the reasoning behind the answer. Drug information from UpToDate Lexidrug has followed into the same interface, so medication questions and clinical questions are answered from one place rather than from separate lookups.
Relevance in India
For teaching hospitals, the governance question is now as important as the clinical one: which AI tools are permitted at the bedside, what corpus do they draw on, and can a resident trace an answer back to a citable source. Closed-corpus tools are considerably easier to defend to an ethics committee than general-purpose chatbots. ISA arranges institutional demonstrations of Expert AI for existing and prospective UpToDate sites.
80%Say AI will be a critical assistant in 5–10 yrs
34%Use clinical AI tools often (22% in 2025)
43%India: find AI tools trustworthy (37% global)
Global Research
Clinician of the Future 2026 — AI moves from experimentation into everyday clinical practice
Patient demand is rising. Care is growing more complex. And AI is moving from experimentation into everyday clinical practice. The Clinician of the Future 2026 report reveals how doctors and nurses globally are responding to today’s pressures, where trust in AI is growing, and what clinicians believe healthcare will look like in the years ahead. Dive into the findings to see how views differ between doctors and nurses, where regional patterns are emerging, and why trusted, clinically focused AI is set to play a bigger role in the future of care.
The India picture
Indian clinicians read differently from the global average on almost every measure. Only 12 per cent are considering leaving their roles, against 24 per cent globally, and 79 per cent say they have sufficient time to provide good care, against 65 per cent. Institutional AI support is rated well above average — AI governance 53 per cent, access to digital tools 50 per cent, AI training 44 per cent — and 43 per cent find AI tools trustworthy against 37 per cent globally. Ease of use, with clear and well-structured outputs, is the single factor Indian clinicians say would most increase their confidence.
COUNTER moves to Release 5.1.1 — Release 5 reports are no longer the benchmark
Release 5.1 became the requirement for COUNTER compliance from January 2025, and report providers only had to supply Release 5 reports for periods up to March 2025. COUNTER published Release 5.1.1 on 30 June 2026, and it is the current Code of Practice with immediate effect. By February 2026 COUNTER reported that more than 80 per cent of report providers were compliant with 5.1 within its first year. The harvesting protocol formerly known as SUSHI is now referred to as the COUNTER API, and compliance still requires independent audit.
Procurement note
Renewal negotiations and budget justifications should be built on 5.1-series reports. If a platform is still supplying Release 5 tabular files, that is worth raising at renewal — and worth checking against the COUNTER Registry before signing.
Elsevier's LeapSpace goes live as a publisher-neutral, AI-assisted research workspace
LeapSpace became generally available in January 2026. It combines Elsevier's own corpus of more than 18 million peer-reviewed articles and books with licensed content from other houses — agreements have been announced with Emerald, IOP Publishing, NEJM Group and Sage, with further publishers expected. Responses display referenced extracts that link back to the article on the publisher's own platform, which is the mechanism by which attribution and traceability are preserved. Elsevier cites its own research finding that while researcher use of AI is rising, only around a fifth trust the tools currently available to them.
Evaluation point
Publisher-neutral workspaces change the licensing conversation: entitlement now determines what the AI layer can see. Institutions should establish which of their existing subscriptions are recognised inside such a workspace before treating it as a replacement for discovery.
AI content licensing has become an established market — with litigation running alongside it
The UK Publishers Association published a detailed account of AI content licensing in March 2026, concluding that the market now rests on firm foundations: text and data mining licensing has existed for over a decade, AI training deals emerged from 2023, and licensing for retrieval-augmented generation is now a meaningful and growing segment. Reported deals include Taylor & Francis with Microsoft and Springer Nature with Google. Not every publisher has chosen licensing — Elsevier's 2026 action against Meta over AI training use is being watched across the sector as the alternative lever.
Contract check
Two clauses now matter in every institutional licence: whether the institution may use subscribed content for text and data mining or local AI applications, and what the publisher may do with institutional usage data. Neither was standard drafting five years ago.
Transformative agreements still driving the OA transition — and India is in the frame
Springer Nature's fifth open access report, released on 31 July 2026, records a 12 per cent rise in OA output through transformative agreements during 2025, with 19 new and 17 renewed agreements signed in the year. There are now 101 such agreements covering researchers at more than 4,400 institutions, and over 165,000 of all TA-funded articles have appeared in the past three years alone. The publisher reports that fully open access articles averaged 7.6 citations, up 21 per cent year on year. In India, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education agreement — signed in 2020 and among Asia's earliest — covers APCs for corresponding authors across its campuses.
Planning point
Transformative agreements shift APC costs from the individual author to the institution, which makes them a library budgeting question rather than a departmental one. Institutions signing a TA should establish early which of their corresponding authors it covers, and for which journal lists, before the first invoice cycle.
Retractions keep climbing — and India's exposure is a governance problem, not a publishing one
The Retraction Watch database has now logged over 63,000 retractions, with paper mills and fabricated peer review identified as the principal drivers; COPE revised its retraction guidance in 2025 specifically to address paper mills, fictitious reviewers and third-party submission manipulation. India ranks third globally in life science retractions. The UGC issued detailed guidance in 2020, prepared with Clarivate, urging every institution to establish an Office of Research Integrity, but enforcement has been uneven, and India remains one of the few large research economies without a dedicated national integrity office. Proposals to make retraction reporting mandatory and to penalise institutions with frequent withdrawals have been under discussion through 2026.
Library implication
Integrity screening is becoming a library service. Journal selection guidance for faculty, access to indexing and evaluation tools, and a documented process for checking where staff are publishing are increasingly expected at accreditation and ranking review.
British Library commissions petabyte-scale preservation platform after its cyber-attack rebuild
In March 2026 the British Library selected Preservica to deliver a secure cloud-based digital preservation repository covering its e-books, e-journals, sound recordings, UK web archives, e-theses and digitised heritage material. The procurement follows the Rebuild & Renew programme launched after the 2023 ransomware attack. The Library's own published incident review remains the most useful document in the sector on this subject: its digital collections and metadata survived because viable backups existed, but recovery was slowed for months because there was no secure infrastructure to restore them onto, and legacy systems with manual data transfer between them widened both the breach and the rebuild.
The lesson worth borrowing
Backups are a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. An institutional library holding perpetual-access files, institutional repository content and digitised theses should be able to answer a simple question — if the campus network were encrypted tomorrow, what would we restore onto?
ACRL's 2026 Top Trends: AI, regulatory pressure and accessibility redesign
The Association of College and Research Libraries published its biennial Top Trends in Academic Libraries in June 2026. The committee identified AI developments disrupting established research methods and tools, sharp political and regulatory shifts affecting academic institutions, and a wholesale accessibility redesign of library websites, digital repositories and collection intake processes driven by new legal requirements. AI literacy frameworks from ACRL and individual universities were noted as an emerging area of practice. ACRL's preceding environmental scan also flagged cybersecurity, observing that libraries are attractive targets precisely because they hold research data and are deeply integrated into wider campus systems.
Worth reading if
You are drafting a five-year library plan or an NAAC/NIRF submission. The trends are US-framed, but AI literacy, accessibility of digital repositories and library cybersecurity translate directly to Indian institutional practice.
Clinician of the Future 2026 published. Elsevier's fifth annual global survey of 2,757 doctors and nurses across 118 countries, with a dedicated Nurses Edition and an accompanying databook broken out by role, region and country — India included.
Jun 2026
COUNTER Release 5.1.1 published. Effective immediately as the current Code of Practice. Report providers already compliant with 5.1 face a limited transition.
Feb 2026
COUNTER compliance passes 80%. More than four in five report providers were delivering Release 5.1-compliant reports within the first year of the requirement.
2026
AI revenue enters publisher results. Informa has indicated total AI-related revenue across its portfolio exceeding $75 million for the year, following the Taylor & Francis licensing arrangement with Microsoft.
ISA Notices
New Partnership
AMBOSS enters the Indian medical education market — ISA appointed authorised partner
AMBOSS, the German-founded clinical knowledge and learning platform used by over a million medical students globally, has launched in India. ISA is the authorised reseller for institutional subscriptions. AMBOSS complements UpToDate and ClinicalKey with integrated learning tools and case-based assessment. First institutional demonstrations are scheduled for Q4 2026.
ISA Announcement · 2026
Compliance
FEMA-compliant remittance arrangements in place
Foreign remittances for institutional subscriptions to international publishers are processed through authorised dealer banks in accordance with applicable FEMA requirements. Complete documentation is available on request for institutional procurement and audit teams.
ISA Compliance Note · 2026
ISA Knowledge Briefs
Medical Knowledge
The clinical evidence gap — and what Indian institutions are actually buying to close it
The volume of published medical evidence has long outpaced any clinician's capacity to read it, and the widely cited figures on unanswered clinical questions and the time cost of an unassisted literature search all point the same way: the constraint at the bedside is retrieval time, not the existence of evidence. That is the gap point-of-care tools were built for, and it is why the 2026 conversation has shifted from search to conversational query grounded in a controlled corpus. For Indian medical institutions the question is no longer whether to invest in clinical decision support, but which platform matches their case mix, their PG teaching load and their governance appetite for AI-generated answers.
ISA Knowledge Brief · 2026
Procurement Strategy
Why consortium models still outperform institutional subscriptions
For a state health science university with dozens of affiliated colleges, the per-institution cost of direct procurement is prohibitive. A consortium model at 60–70 per cent of institutional pricing still leaves the coordinating body to draft the MOU framework, negotiate with publishers and manage member communications. ISA absorbs that operational burden entirely: the university or state body receives a single point of accountability, a single invoice, and an annual usage report across all member institutions. That need is sharpest for the resources a national or state licence does not carry — point-of-care tools, e-book collections, question banks and specialist databases — which for medical and allied health institutions is a substantial list.
ISA Knowledge Brief · 2026
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