Subbiah Arunachalam

He has been an editor of scientific journals (Indian Journal of Technology, Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and Pramana - Journal of Physics), a science writer, a researcher in chemistry, a teacher of information science, a librarian in a national laboratory, the executive secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals.

Currently he is a Distinguished Fellow in the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and a part-time Visiting Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include science on the periphery, scientometrics, and information access. He has recently completed a literature-based study on mapping science in India. He has more than 40 papers to his credit and is on the editorial boards of six refereed international journals. He has delivered more than twenty invited talks in international conferences. His forte is his knowledge and understanding of the Indian scientific and scholarly community and their work. He is a member of both the Indian and the International Science Writers Associations.

In a post made in 2003 Stevan Harnad, who is also a leading light in the global Open Access movement, called Arunachalam "India's and the Developing World's great advocate for open access". Arunachalam had then been named as Co-Director of the CogPrints Archive.