Open Access Journal Publishing in the Agricultural Sciences

Thomas Abraham1, Nagaraj Vaidya 2, Vimal Kumar3, Sridhar Gutam4 and Aneeja Guttikonda5
Open Knowledge Society, India Tech Mahindra Ltd., 9/7 Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029, Karnataka, India 3 Asian School of Business, Technopark, Trivandrum 695581, Kerala, India 4 Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Boriavi, Anand 387310, Gujarat, India 5 National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500407, India
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tomuhs@gmail.com Last modified: 2009-06-29 ABSTRACT A survey was conducted on scholarly research communication and the prospects of Open Access (OA) to the scholarly research dissemination in India by Open Knowledge Society (OKS). The India's National Agricultural Research System (NARS) has been choosen as a case study for exploring the possibility of OA in publishing agricultural research. With over 90 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutes and 42 agricultural universities, established by respective states at State level across the country, the Indian NARS, is one of the largest NARS of the world. The ICAR is the apex organization of Indian NARS coordinating the agricultural research and education of the country. The agriculture research output mainly comes from publicly funded projects, and many of the research centers and universities publish research journals (peer-reviewed) and magazines even in local languages apart from English. Beside, there are many professional societies in agriculture and related sciences publishing peer reviewed journals. However, majority of these journals are traditional print journals and thus are less visible to the outside world. In the country, the researchers cannot have the access to the published literature without the subscription to those journals and many of the libraries do not subscribe all the journals. From India, only four journals in the area of agriculture and animal 1

sciences found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Hence, it is felt that there is a tremendous potential for the research output to be made available to World with the OKS intervention and with the help of Open Journal System (OJS) software. OKS would like to bring this point forward and hope it can bring some change and create awareness about OA publishing in Agricultural research in India. The survey revealed that there are more than 100 journals which are being published in India on agricultural research by the universities, research centers and professional societies. However these publishers are not aware of the goodness of online open access publications. There is a need for creating awareness among the authors and publishers to embrace the latest Internet technologies for publication of research journals by persuasion campaigns. OKS is keen to promote Open Access Publishing (OAP) using OJS by helping institutions to setup their journals and also build an indexing system for Indian agricultural journals. The result would definitely help Indian researchers and the end user farmer community and also help other developing countries to improve their knowledge.

INTRODUCTION India has proud age old tradition of agriculture providing livelihood to 110 million of the work force and accounting for 1/6th of the total value of the countys exports and contributing now 18.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite a steady decline in its share of the GDP, it remains the largest economic sector in the country. The food grain production increased from 51 million tonnes in 195051 to 217 million tonnes in 200607. This was achieved through a favorable interplay of infrastructure, technology, extension, and policy support backed by strong political will. The latest report by Planning Commission of India projected that food (cereal)

demand could be 221.11 million tons per annum by 2020. Hence, with availability of fixed land and water, growth in agriculture and food production has to be achieved only by increasing productivity per unit of these scarce natural resources by using effective improved technologies. The National Agricultural Research System (NARS) of India comprises of ICAR System at National level and State Agricultural University system (SAU) at State level is focusing on this issue and to increase the yield potential of individual crops by enabling more intensive use of inputs. The public funded research system is responsible for rainbow revolutions in India ultimately bringing considerable change in the livelihoods of farmers establishing the fact that technological progress in agriculture is crucial for the overall economic welfare of the country. The Scholarly Journals play the major role in dissemination of quality scholarly knowledge generated from the research projects funded by the public money.

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEM The National Agricultural Research System (NARS) of India consists of five National Institutes; five National Bureaux; 48 ICAR Research Institutes; 138 Substations of ICAR Institutes 12 Project Directorates in crop sciences and animal sciences; 30 National Research Centres; 77 All India Coordinated Research Projects, 41 State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), one Central Agricultural University and 4 Central Universities having faculty of agriculture (ICAR at a Glance - July 2008). Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an apex national organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) for conducting and coordinating research and education in agriculture including animal husbandry and fisheries. NARS of India is one of the largest national agricultural research systems in the

world. ICAR receives funds from the Government of India and channels funds to various ICAR institutes, State Agricultural Universities. In the NARS network, ICAR includes about 30,000 personnel out of which nearly 7000 are engaged in active research and its management and the SAUs employ about 26,000 scientists for teaching, research and extension education; of these over 6000 scientists are employed in the ICAR supported coordinated projects. In total about 13000 scientific staff is working in NARS. Most of their research projects are publicly funded with a mission for sustainable growth of Indian agriculture by interfacing education, research and extension initiatives. This research complimented with efficient and effective institutional, infrastructure and policy support that is creating a proper fit between the humanity and its habitat.

AGRICULTURE RESEARCH INFORMATION DISSEMINATION IN NARS Agriculture in India is a state subject. The SAUs are playing a pivotal role in growth of Agricultural Research and Education under NARS in the country. Currently, there are 42 State Agricultural Universities in India. These SAUs are responsible for agricultural research, education, training and transfer of technology in the State. These universities are carring out research programmes to tackle location-specific problems of different agro-climatic zones along with identified thrust areas. The research programmes and activities are critically reviewed to constantly improve and generate technologies for increasing production in agriculture, animal husbandry, home science and allied sectors. In order to disseminate the research outcome, SAUs publish technical bulletins for the farmers and extensions workers. Apart from this, few SAUs also publish peer reviewed journals mainly for the scholars and scientific staff of that university.

The ICAR institutes and SAUs constitute a major producer of refereed research output in all agriculture and allied disciplines in NARS and the agricultural scholarly research is disseminated to students and researchers by peer reviewed journals published by the Directorate of Information and Publications of Agriculture (DIPA) of ICAR, Publication Divisions of SAUs and most importantly the Scientific Societies formed for the agricultural scholarship in ICAR and SAUs. To some extent, there are other journals with commercial interests which also contribute for the agricultural research dissemination. But all of these journals are the traditional print based journals and they are available for the subscribers as private circulation and for the libraries of SAUs. It is very interesting to note that Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), one of the oldest and historical institute involved in agricultural research and education based at New Delhi, is the birth place and a host of many professional societies in agriculture and allied disciplines. Now few of them are housed at National Agricultural Science Complex, New Delhi. More than 100 professional scientific societies are in NARS system and all of them are publishing peer reviewed scholarly journals agriculture and allied disciplines (Table 1 & 2) with some financial assistance from ICAR. If we look at these societies, we find that about 50% them have websites and only 20-30% of them make their journal's full-text content available online. However, unfortunately all of them are of Toll Access (TA). Very few of these societies are providing information about the forthcoming/current issue's table of contents on their websites.

NEED FOR ONLINE AND OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE The research articles carrying nascent knowledge are expected to generate new cycles of knowledge. However, because of traditional process of publishing system (paper-based &

subscription) of print-only journals is preventing the global access to knowledge pool generated by researchers. It is very unfortunate to note that, the Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics which is being published by Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (ISAS) housed at Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI), the premier institute of statistics and computers in the field of agriculture has no dedicated website and no online version of its peerreviewed journal. This lack of adequate information exchange between researchers in agricultural sciences is limiting the research system to properly address the issues of agricultural research and food security in India. The peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, thesis and working papers can be made freely available online for research, teaching and other purposes without any licensing restrictions to readers by the two methods viz., Open Access Journals and Open Archives. Though, the efforts towards making scholarly journals available through open access have already been started in medical/health sciences, it has not gained any momentum in the agricultural sciences. There is less awareness about open access among the Indian agricultural research community. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), when searched with key word 'India', it resulted in 129 Journals from which only four had figured when looked for agricultural and allied disciplines (Table 3). Secondly, Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) when searched, it resulted in 40 repositories. This is an encouraging that the number of Indian journals and institutions moving towards open access is increasing but in agricultural sciences, they are small in number. Hence, there is a great deal of need to create awareness of OA concepts and its impact on the visibility of scholarly information. Over the last five years there is significant
amount of OA advocacy and awareness by way of workshops, seminars conferences, etc in the western world which needs to be geared up in India too for speedy benefits from OA. In India these

efforts were sporadic and were by very few professional societies, trusts and institutions. Therefore, these efforts have to be consolidated and other scholarly societies should also be involved. The professional bodies in India, the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore have adopted open access policy and made all their peerreviewed journals and other publications open access. Though this kind of initiative has not taken up by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), some efforts were made for the improvement in quality of journals. Since, many of the Indian journals were lacking international impact factor rating, NAAS has done an exercise to identify journals of standing and relevance to

agricultural sciences and are assessed for a maximum of 10 marks and its relative weight-age is indicated by assigning appropriate marks against each journal 10 point scale by its Journal Rating
Committee. In the rating of journals, the important factor 'citation of individual articles' (citation index) was not taken into consideration, since there were no electronic journals in agricultural and allied sciences. Now various portals with commercial intrests have come into bussiness of agricultural journals viz., <http://IndianJournals.in>, <http://www.indianperiodical.in/>,

<http://www.connectjournals.com/> and <http://indianajournals.com/>. However no efforts were made by professional societies and institutes to make their journals online and open access. The research community in agriculture have to gain access to the international peer-reviewed research communications with credit assistance from the World Bank, under the Consortium for eResources in Agriculture (CeRA) of National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) for the project duration of five years (2007-08 to 2011-12). Under the NAIP's Component 1, the activity of creation of open access publications in selected ICAR institutes and SAUs is proposed and the projects, EPublishing & Knowledge System in Agricultural Research (EPKSAR) is being taken up by the DIPA for the development of online electronic publishing and hosting of ICAR publications

integrated with e-Commerce through DIPA Portal, and KrishiPrabha - Indian Agricultural Dissertations Repository by CCS Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar are in progress. However, the efforts to establish agricultural and allied discipline Institutional Repositories (Irs) in various institutes and universities, wherein the authors deposit their pre-print or post-print articles published has not been taken place. Visualizing these activities, we may say that efforts are being made for online access of scholarship but not for making them open access. For all these developments in the scholarly publishing in agricultural sciences, w e can assign

the following points: 1. Fear of revenue loss from print subscriptions if journal becomes OA even it increases readership and circulation of knowledge. 2. Lack of IT infrastructure facilities like hardware and connectivity of high bandwidth or the funds to develop it for using far more efficient online means of managing and publishing journals. 3. Lack of awareness with regard to copyright issues and and the lack of management and clerical & legal support. 4. Lack of expertise in every organization to promote and creation of institutional archives and encourage scientists to deposit their papers. 5. Researchers are not aware of the fact that the editors of renowned journals accepts the archived pre-print papers and also permit the authors to archive and post-prints.

Lawrence (2000) stated Providing OA to publicly-funded research accelerates research, gives taxpayers (both lay readers and professional researchers) access to the research they funded, and increases the return on their investment in research and the citations for the open 8

access scholarly literature is higher than the subscription based scholarly literature. Recently, for the revitalization of knowledge generation and application in agriculture, National Knowledge Commission of India (NKC) had recommended that: (1). The lab/project file must be made mandatory in SAUs and ICAR institutes and computerized on a priority basis, preferably by 2009-2010 so that, a research database is created within the organization and at the national level; (2). The ICAR and SAUs should promote and recognize quality and relevant scientific output by promoting research publication; (3). Create a web-enabled Knowledge Bank on all aspects of agriculture. By considering Lawrence statement on OA and the recommendations of NKC, creation of Open Access Journals and Open Archives/Repositories are the prerequisites for the creation of web-enabled Agricultural Knowledge Bank with all the data and information on the agricultural research and made freely available for the various stakeholders. Centralized Data Centre at the ICAR headquarters, is in the process of establishment under NAIP which may be followed by the establishment of Agricultural Knowledge Bank. However, the need of the hour is the make the all the scholarly research data and articles freely available for the researchers for the country and their counterparts around the world for the development of various location specific technologies. It makes no sense to limit and control access now we have technologies to give information to everyone (Peter Eckersley, 2009). OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEMS
The Open Journal System (OJS) can be effectively utilized for hosting of the online and open journals in agricultural and allied disciplines. The OJS is a journal management and publishing software system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to

expand and improve access to research. Available as open source, OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems and its finely grained indexing of research, OJS seeks to improve the scholarly quality of refereed research. Since, there is already free and open source software Open Journal System (OJS) under GPL license, the reason for development of software as EPKSAR is not known. OJS is easy to install, platform independent, have excellent and comprehensive documentation,

well-implemented plug-in support, well-thought-out work-flow and administrative roles (Cyzyk and Choudhury, 2008). OJS could be effectively used for the journals in agriculture and allied disciplines. The list of journals in agriculture using OJS are shown in Table 4.

CONCLUSION Although now there are more than 100 Indian journals on OA are available, there are only few journals in agriculture and allied disciplines. There is an urgent need to make the print journals in agriculture online and open access. Apart from this, there is a need to have a harvesting system for Indian Agricultural Journals which can be easily accessed by users in India and other parts of the world, there by increasing impact and visibility of Indian research. For this, the authors (agricultural scientists) need to be educated and sensitized about the benefits of open access. Additionally, the policy makers, professional societies and bodies in agriculture and allied disciplines are also be made to realize, understand, appreciate the need of OA and implement the same recognizing the urgency of Open Knowledge Agriculture System in India by which the possibility of access to technologies, refinement and adoption to bring into the reality of food and livelihood security could be achieved. The Indian agricultural research information system, with online and open access may bring a significant increase in visibility of agricultural research in 10

India and enable Indian agriculture to reap higher production with increased productivity and showcase it globally as a competitive player. A national-level mechanism is essential to promote and coordinate open-access publishing systems and to improve awareness for open access is needed. Training is to be provided to all the editorial board members of the various journals on the usage of tools, processes, and implementation of standards. There should be a link with working groups internationally for open-access publishing in developed and developing countries. Now, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) nationally and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) internationally, has adopted Open Access Policy and this could lead the way in adopting Open Access Policy in ICAR and setting up of a working model for Open Journals in Agriculture. For this, NAAS, DIPA and other Scientific Societies should work for the open access movement thereby making scholarly literature freely available online and searchable by the public. Open Knowledge Society is committed for the all types of support for making Open Access Journals in Agriculture and also OKS is preparing project proposals for seeking funding for the sustainability of Open Journals in India. The OKS shall be working with the scholar communities in agriculture and along with Science Commons, Creative Commons Licensing, in making the agricultural scientific research re-useful and also make it one-click access by using OJS platform. This Open Access approach lowers the cost of publication and simultaneously increases the accessibility along with the long term preservation of agriculture scholarly works in India. REFERENCES 11

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Table 1. List of Journals and Publishers in NARS

SL. NO. 1. JOURNAL AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH REVIEW AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING TODAY AGRONOMY DIGEST AGROPEDOLOGY ISSN 09713441 PUBLISHER AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY INDIAN SOCIETY OF SURVEY & LAND USE PLANNING ANIMAL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ARID ZONE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF INDIA FORUM OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS ONLINE YES OPEN ACCESS NO TOLL ACCESS YES

2.

09702962 09726381 09711570 09722963 09703179 05701791 09709924 09713573 02557193 02560933

YES

NO

YES

3. 4.

FULL TEXT NO

ARCHIV ES NA

YES NA

5.

ANIMAL NUTRITION AND FEED TECHNOLOGY ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ANNALS OF ARID ZONE ANNALS OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ANNALS OF PLANT PROTECTION SCIENCES CLAY RESEARCH CROP IMPROVEMENT CROP PROTECTION AND PRODUCTION CURRENT AGRICULTURE CURRENT RESEARCH

FULL TEXT NA

NO

YES

6.

NA

NA

7.

NO

NA

NA

8. 9.

NO

NA NO

NA YES

SOCIETY OF PLANT FULL PROTECTION SCIENCES TEXT THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY OF INDIA CROP IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF INDIA FULL TEXT NO

10. 11. 12.

NO NA NA

YES NA NA

AGRICULTURAL NO RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION 02541092 INDIAN SOCIETY OF SALINITY RESEARCH SCIENTISTS NO

13.

NA

NA

14.

UNIVERSITY OF AGRIL. NO SCIENCES, BANGALORE 03779335 ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY NO

NA

NA

15.

ENTOMON

NA

NA

13

SL. NO. 16. 17.

JOURNAL FORAGE RESEARCH

ISSN 09727183

PUBLISHER INDIAN SOCIETY OF FORAGE RESEARCH ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY CSSHAU

ONLINE NO NO

OPEN ACCESS NA NA

TOLL ACCESS NA NA

GUJARAT 0250AGRICULTURAL 5193 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL HARYANA 0379AGRICULTURAL 4008 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF RESEARCH HARYANA JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY HARYANA JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCES HARYANA VETERINARIAN HIMACHAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INDIAN AGRICULTURIST INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOCHEMISTRY INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGROFORESTRY INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL HEALTH INDIAN JOURNAL OF 09705414 09702876 00334359 09700595 00194336 09706399 03678229 00195014 00195022 09720715 0537197X 00195057 0970-

18.

NO

NA

NA

19.

HARYANA AGRONOMISTS ASSOCIATION

NO

NA

NA

20.

HORTICULTURAL NO SOCIETY OF HARYANA CSSHAU CSKHPKV NO NO

NA

NA

21. 22.

NA NA

NA NA

23. 24.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL BIOCHEMISTS INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTS INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGROFORESTY INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY WEST BENGAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION ANIMAL NUTRITION

NO NO

NA NA

NA NA

25.

NO

NA

NA

26.

NO

NA

NA

27.

NO

NA

NA

28. 29. 30.

NO

NA

NA CURREN T NA

ARCHIVE YES S NO NA

31.

TOC

NO

NA

14

SL. NO.

JOURNAL ANIMAL NUTRITION

ISSN 3209 03678318 0970 9509

PUBLISHER SOCIETY INDIA INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGISTS, IMMUNOLOGISTS AND SPECIALISTS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ONLINE

OPEN ACCESS NA

TOLL ACCESS NA

32.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

NO

33.

NO

NA

NA

34.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF 0970COMPARATIVE 9320 MICROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES INDIAN JOURNAL OF DAIRY AND BIOSCIENCES INDIAN JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE INDIAN JOURNAL OF DRYLAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INDIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION INDIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES 09715436 00195146 09712062

NO

NA

NA

35.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, NO NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE INDIAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION INDIAN SOCIETY OF DRYLAND AGRICULTURE NO NO

NA

NA

36. 37.

NA NA

NA NA

38. 39.

03678288 0537196X 09706011

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA INDIAN SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INDIAN SOCIETY OF GENETICS & PLANT BREEDING INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF HILL FARMING HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA NEMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES

FULL TEXT NO

NO NA

YES NA

40.

TOC

NA

NA

41.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF 0019GENETICS AND PLANT 5200 BREEDING INDIAN JOURNAL OF HILL FARMING INDIAN JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE INDIAN JOURNAL OF NEMATOLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES 09706429 09728538 03036960 09718184

NO

NA

NA

42. 43. 44. 45.

NO FULL TEXT FULL TEXT NO

NA NO NO NA

NA YES YES NA

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SL. NO. 46. 47.

JOURNAL INDIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PROTECTION INDIAN JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE INDIAN JOURNAL OF PULSES RESEARCH (JOURNAL OF FOOD LEGUMES) INDIAN JOURNAL OF SMALL RUMINANTS

ISSN 00195502 02534355 00195529 09706380

PUBLISHER INDIAN SOCIETY FOR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY PLANT PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

ONLINE FULL TEXT NO

OPEN ACCESS NO NA

TOLL ACCESS YES NA

48. 49.

INDIAN POULTRY FULL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION TEXT INDIAN SOCIETY OF PULSES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT INDIAN SOCIETY FOR SHEEP AND GOAT PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION OF SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS OF INDIA INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY ANATOMISTS INDIAN SOCIETY FOR VETERINARY MEDICINE INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VETERINARY RESEARCH INDIAN SOCIETY VETERINARY SURGERY INDIAN VIROLOGICAL SOCIETY INDIAN SOCIETY OF WEED SCIENCE FULL TEXT

NO NO

YES YES

50.

09719857

FULL TEXT

ABSTRA CTS

YES

51.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL CONSERVATION INDIAN JOURNAL OF SUGARCANE TECHNOLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY ANATOMY INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH

09703349 09703233

NO

NA

NA

52.

NO

NA

NA

53.

09711937 0970051X 02504758 09714251

NO

NA

NA

54.

NO

NA

NA

55.

FULL TEXT FULL TEXT

NO

YES

56.

NO

YES

57.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY SURGERY INDIAN JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY INDIAN JOURNAL OF WEED SCIENCE

02544105 09702822 02538040

FULL TEXT FULL TEXT NO

NO

YES

58. 59.

NA NA

YES NA

16

SL. NO. 60.

JOURNAL INDIAN PHYTOPATHOLOGY INDIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION INDIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OIL PALM JNKVV RESEARCH JOURNAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL OF AGROMETEOROLGY JOURNAL OF APPLIED HORTICULTURE JOURNAL OF ARID LEGUMES JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

ISSN 0367973X 09722181

PUBLISHER

ONLINE

OPEN ACCESS NA

TOLL ACCESS NA

INDIAN NO PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION INDIAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF OIL PALM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT JNKVV INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS FULL TEXT

61.

YES

NA

62. 63.

00196479 09725806

NO NO

NA NA

NA NA

64. 65.

00213721 02566524 09721665 09721045

NO FULL TEXT

NA NO

NA YES

66.

ASSOCIATION OF TOC AGROMETEOROLOGIST S SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTRE SOCIETY FOR ARID LEGUMES NO

NA

NA

67.

NA

NA

68. 69.

YES NO

NO NA

YES NA

0971930X

SOCIETY FOR BIOCONTROL ADVANCEMENT SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION, TAMIL NADU AGRIL. UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE PROJECT DIRECTORATE FOR CROPPING SYSTEM RESEARCH

70.

NO

NA

NA

71.

JOURNAL OF FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL OF 0973-

NO

NA

NA

72.

ASSOCIATION OF FOOD NO SCIENTISTS & TECH., CFTRI, MYSORE SOCIETY OF NO

NA

NA

73.

NA

NA

17

SL. NO.

JOURNAL HORTICULTURAL SCIENCES

ISSN 354X

PUBLISHER PROMOTION OF HORTICULTURE INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRIL. STATISTICS, NEW DELHI

ONLINE

OPEN ACCESS

TOLL ACCESS

74.

JOURNAL OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRIL. STATISTICS JOURNAL OF INDIAN SOCIETY OF WATER MANAGEMENT JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (LUDHIANA) JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY JOURNAL OF OILSEEDS RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE JOURNAL OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL OF PLANT DISEASE SCIENCES JOURNAL OF PLANT PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNAL OF PLANTATION CROPS JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ANGRAU JOURNAL OF RESEARCH BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF RESEARCH PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF RICE RESEARCH 09703837 09719393 09702776 09720499 09717811 09737456 09731717 03045242 09700226 09711724

NO

NA

NA

75.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF NO WATER MANAGEMENT INDIAN SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INSECT SCIENCE INDIAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY INDIAN SOCIETY OF OILSEED RESEARCH INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE SOCIETY FOR PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF PLANT PATHOLOGIST SOCIETY FOR PLANT PROTECTION & ENVIRONMENT INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANTATION CROPS ANGRAU NO

NA

NA

76.

NA

NA

77.

NO

NA

NA

78. 79.

NO NO

NA NA

NA NA

80.

FULL TEXT NO NO

NO

YES

81. 82.

NA NA

NA NA

83. 84. 85.

NO FULL TEXT

NA YES NA

NA NA NA

BIRSA AGRICULTURAL NO UNIVERISTY

86.

00486019

PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RICE RESEARCH

NO

NA

NA

87.

NO

NA

NA

18

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JOURNAL JOURNAL OF ROOT CROPS

ISSN 03782409

PUBLISHER INDIAN SOCIETY FOR ROOT CROPS SOIL CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF INDIA

ONLINE NO NO

OPEN ACCESS NA NA

TOLL ACCESS NA NA

JOURNAL OF SOIL AND 0022WATER 457X CONSERVATION IN INDIA JOURNAL OF SOILS AND CROPS JOURNAL OF SPICES AND AROMATIC CROPS JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN FISHERIES ASSOCIATION JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF COASTAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE JOURNAL OF THE INLAND FISHERIES SOCIETY OF INDIA JOURNAL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY 09712836 09713328 09711422 00196363

90.

ASSOCIATION OF SOILS NO & CROP RESEARCH SCIENTISTS INDIAN SOCIETY FOR SPICES INDIAN FISHERIES ASSOCIATION INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS INDIAN SOCIETY OF COSTAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INDIAN SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE INLAND FISHERIES SOCIETY OF INDIA KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY NO

NA

NA

91.

NA

NA

92.

NO

NA

NA

93.

NO

NA

NA

94.

09721584

NO

NA

NA

95.

0019638X 03793435 0971636X 09716157

TOC

NA

NA

96.

ABSTRA CTS FULL TEXT

NA

NA

97.

YES

NO

98.

THE INDIAN NO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY INDIAN SOCIETY OF NO WATER MANAGEMENT UASD FULL TEXT

NA

NA

99. 100.

JOURNAL OF WATER MANAGEMENT KARNATAKA JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

09716076 09721061

NA YES

NA NA

19

SL. NO. 101.

JOURNAL MADRAS AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL MAHARASHTRA JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION MEDICINAL PLANTS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOMEDICINES AND RELATED INDUSTRIES MUSHROOM RESEARCH MYSORE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS ORISSA JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE ORYZA

ISSN 00249602

PUBLISHER MADRAS AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS UNION B.S. KONKAN KRISH VIDYAPEETH, DAPOLI (M.S.) SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

ONLINE FULL TEXT NO

OPEN ACCESS YES

TOLL ACCESS NA

102.

NA

NA

103.

FULL TEXT

NO

YES

104. 105.

09724885 00478539 09747877

MUSHROOM SOCIETY OF INDIA UASB

NO FULL TEXT YES

NA YES

NA NA

106.

MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA ORISSA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ASSOCIATION OF RICE RESEARCH WORKERS GBPUAT

YES

NA

107.

09732160 04747615

NO

NA

NA

108. 109. 110.

TOC NO

NA NA NO

NA NA YES

PANTNAGAR JOURNAL 0972OF RESEARCH 8813 PEST MANAGEMENT IN HORTICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS 09716831

ASSOCIATION FOR FULL ADVANCEMENT OF TEXT PEST MANAGEMENT IN HORTICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS SOCIETY OF PESTICIDE NO SCIENCE INDIA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PLANT MORPHOLOGISTS NO

111. 112.

PESTICIDE RESEARCH JOURNAL PHYTOMORPHOLOGY

09706763

NA NA

NA NA

113. 114.

PKV RESEARCH JOURNAL PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY &

0378813X 09722025

PDKV

NO

NA NO

NA YES

SOCIETY FOR BIOLOGY FULL & BIOTECHNOLOGY TEXT

20

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JOURNAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

ISSN

PUBLISHER

ONLINE

OPEN ACCESS NO NO NA

TOLL ACCESS NA YES NA

115. 116. 117.

PLANT DISEASE RESEARCH POTATO JOURNAL PROGRESSIVE HORTICULTURE PUNJAB HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL RAJASTHAN JOURNAL OF EXTENSION EDUCATION SEED RESEARCH SOUTH INDIAN HORTICULTURE SOYBEAN RESEARCH

09704914 09708235 09703020

INDIAN SOCIETY OF TOC PLANT PATHOLOGISTS INDIAN POTATO ASSOCIATION HILL HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY PAU FULL TEXT NO

118.

NO

NA

NA

119.

RAJASTHAN SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION 03795594 00383473 INDIAN SOCIETY OF SEED TECHNOLOGY SOUTH INDIAN HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

NO

NA

NA

120. 121.

NO NO

NA NA

NA NA

122.

SOCIETY FOR NO SOYBEAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT TAMIL NADU VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY INDIAN SOCIETY OF VEGETABLE SCIENCE FULL TEXT

NA

NA

123.

TAMILNADU JOURNAL 0971OF VETERINARY AND 2942 ANIMAL SCIENCES VEGETABLE SCIENCE 09706585

YES

NA

124.

NO

NA

NA

Table 2. List of Professional Societies in NARS

SL.NO. 1. PUBLISHER AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION ADDRESS DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, I.A.R.I., PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI - 110012. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION, SAISADAN PRASAD COLONY ROAD, JATHARPATH, AKOLA URL http://www.geocities.com/aeraindia/

2.

21

SL.NO. 3.

PUBLISHER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA

ADDRESS THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 35, BALLYGUNGE CIRCULAR ROAD, KOLKATA 700019, SOUTHERN REGIONAL STATION, NATIONAL DAIRY OF RESEARCH INSTITUTE, BANGALORE ACHARYA N G RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISTY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABD 500030 CAS IN ANIMAL NUTRITION, INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, IZATNAGAR 243122 DAIRY CATTLE NUTRITION DIVISION, NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE KARNAL 132001, HARYANA CENTRAL ARID ZONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAZRI) CAMPUS, JODHPUR 34003 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF KERALA, KARIAVATTOM - 695581 BANGALORE

URL

4.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ANGRAU

5.

http://www.angrau.net/Journal%20of %20ResearchANGRAU.htm

6.

ANIMAL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION

http://www.anft.org/html/home.htm

7.

ANIMAL NUTRITION SOCIETY INDIA

http://www.nutrisocietyindia.com/

8.

ARID ZONE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF INDIA ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF PEST MANAGEMENT IN HORTICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS ASSOCIATION OF AGROMETEOROLOGI STS

9.

10.

11.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY, B.A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, GUJRAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND 388110.

http://www.agrimetassociation.com

22

SL.NO. 12.

PUBLISHER ASSOCIATION OF FOOD SCIENTISTS & TECHNOLOGY

ADDRESS CENTRAL FOOD TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSITUTE (CFTRI), MYSORE

URL

13.

ASSOCIATION OF DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PLANT PATHOLOGIST PATHOLOGY, DR. P.D.K.V., AKOLA - 444104 (M.S.). ASSOCIATION OF RICE RESEARCH WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF SOILS AND CROP RESEARCH SCIENTISTS CENTRAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CUTTACK - 753006. 21, ANAND NAGAR, NEAR DATTA MEGHE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE, RANA PRATAP NAGAR, POST OFFICE, NAGPUR 444021 (M.S.). INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SUGARCANE RESEARCH, LUCKNOW 226002 BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISTY DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION, B.S. KONKAN KRISHI VIDYAPEETH, DAPOLI (M.S.) http://www.baujharkhand.org/ http://crri.nic.in/arrw/index.htm

14.

15.

16.

ASSOCIATION OF SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS OF INDIA BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISTY BSKKV

17.

18.

http://www.dbskkv.org/

19.

CENTRAL MARINE CENTRAL MARINE http://www.cmfri.com/ FISHERIES RESEARCH FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INSTITUTE, P.B.NO. 1603, ERNAKULAM NORTH P.O., COCHIN - 682018 (KERALA). CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY OF INDIA THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY OF INDIA, IARI, NEW DELHI 110012

20.

21.

CROP IMPROVEMENT DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SOCIETY OF INDIA BREEDING, PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, LUDHIANA 141004. CSKHPKV CSSHAU CSK HPKV, PALAMPUR CCS HARYANA http://hillagric.ernet.in/ http://hau.ernet.in/

22. 23.

23

SL.NO.

PUBLISHER

ADDRESS AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR 125004 (HARYANA).

URL

24. 25.

DEPARTMENT OF PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURE, PAU UNIVERSITY, LUDHIANA ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY, UDAIPUR 313 001 DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012. 01, KAMLA NAGAR, TUKARAM HOSPITAL CHOWK, AKOLA - 444004

http://www.pau.edu

26.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA FORUM OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS GBPUAT

27.

28.

G.B. PANT UNIVERSITY http://www.gbpuat.ac.in/ OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOYG, PANTNAGAR, DISTT. - U.S. NAGAR,UTTRANCHAL 263145 DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY, CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR 125004 (HARYANA).

29.

HARYANA AGRONOMISTS ASSOCIATION

30.

HILL HORTICULTURE HILL HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY. SOCIETY ALMORA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF HARYANA DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE & VEGETABLE SCIENCES, CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR - 125 004 DIVISION OF FRUIT & HORTICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012. DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICATION OF AGRICULTURE, KRISHI http://www.hsi1942.in/

31.

32.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA

33.

ICAR

24

SL.NO.

PUBLISHER

ADDRESS ANUSANDHAN BHAWAN, PUSA, NEW DELHI 110012.

URL

34.

INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, GADVASU, LUDHIANA 141004

http://www.iaavp.org/

35.

INDIAN ASSOCIATION 363, BARI BAMANPURI, FOR THE BAREILLY 243003, ADVANCEMENT OF UTTAR PRADESH VETERINARY RESEARCH INDIAN ASSOCIATION ICAR RESEARCH OF HILL FARMING COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION, UMROI ROAD, BARAPANI, MEGHALAYA INDIAN ASSOCIATION 218, KAULAGARH ROAD, OF SOIL AND WATER DEHRA DUN - 248195 CONSERVATIONISTS (UTTARAKHAND). INDIAN ASSOCIATION INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF OF VETERINARY VETERINARY ANATOMISTS ANATOMISTS, NAGPUR INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGISTS, IMMUNOLOGISTS AND SPECIALISTS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES DEPT. VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, PAU, LUDHIANA - 141 004

http://www.iaavr.org/

36.

37.

http://www.iaswc.com/

38.

http://www.iava.c-o.in/

39.

http://www.iavmi.org/

40.

INDIAN ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT OF OF VETERINARY VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS PATHOLOGY, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE, GADVASU, LUDHIANA-141 004 INDIAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION INDIAN FISHERIES ASSOCIATION

http://www.iavp.org/

41.

IDA HOUSE, SECTOR - IV, http://www.indairyasso.org/ R.K. PURAM, NEW DELHI 110022. CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES EDUCATION, FISHERIES UNIVERSITY ROAD SEVEN BUNGALOWS, ANDHERI http://www.cife.edu.in/

42.

25

SL.NO. 43.

PUBLISHER

ADDRESS (W), MUMBAI - 400061

URL

INDIAN DIVISION OF PLANT http://www.ipsdis.com PHYTOPATHOLOGICA PATHOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW L SOCIETY DELHI - 110012. INDIAN POTATO ASSOCIATION INDIAN POULTRY SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CENTRAL POTATO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SHIMLA - 171001. (H.P.). CENTRAL AVIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, IZATNAGAR 243122 http://www.gpc2008.in/index.html

44.

45.

http://www.ipsa-cari.org/

46.

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR DIVISION OF PLANT PLANT PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI 110012.

http://www.ispp-online.org/

47.

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR CENTRAL TUBER CROPS http://www.isrc.in/index.php ROOT CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SREEKARIYAM, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 695017, KERALA INDIAN SOCIETY FOR SHEEP AND GOAT PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AVIKANAGAR304501,VIA-JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN http://www.issgpu.org/

48.

49.

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR INDIAN SOCIETY FOR SPICES SPICES C/O. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPICE RESEARCH, CALICUT (KERALA) INDIAN SOCIETY FOR DEPARTMENT OF THE ADVANCEMENT ENTOMOLOGY, PUNJAB OF INSECT SCIENCE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, LUDHIANA, PUBJAB INDIAN SOCIETY FOR DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MEDICINE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES, GB. PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY, PANTNAGAR-263145, UTTARANCHAL INDIAN SOCIETY OF C.S. AZAD UNIVERSITY http://www.isvm.net/index.htm

50.

51.

52.

http://www.indianbiochemists.blogspot.co

26

SL.NO.

PUBLISHER AGRICULTURAL BIOCHEMISTS

ADDRESS OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR 208 002 m/

URL

53.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTS

SHEILA DHAR INSTITUTE http://www.allduniv.ac.in/ OF SOIL SCIENCE, DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD, 5, LAJPAT RAI ROAD, ALLAHABAD 211002. 46-48, ESPLANDS MANSIONS, M.G. ROAD, MUMBAI - 400001. http://www.isaeindia.org/

54.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS

55.

G-3, SOCIETIES BLOCK, http://www.isae.in/ NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CENTRE PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI-110012 DIVISION OF AGRONOMY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI 110012. IASRI CAMPUS, LIBRARY AVENUE, PUSA, NEW DELHI - 110012. NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR AGROFORESTRY, NEAR PAHUJ DAM, GWALIOR ROAD, JHANSI - 284003 (U.P.). http://iasri.res.in:8081/ISASWEB/index.ht m http://www.nrcaf.ernet.in/isaf.html

56.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGROFORESTY

57.

58.

59.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY

DIVISION OF AGRONOMY, http://www.isa-india.in/ INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI 110 012 CENTRAL SOIL SALINITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE REGIONAL RESEARCH STATION, CANNING TOWN (P.O), SOUTH 24PARGANAS - 743 329, WEST BENGAL CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE, SANTOSHNAGAR, HYDERABAD - 500059. http://www.iscar.org.in/

60.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF COASTAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

61.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF DRYLAND AGRICULTURE

27

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PUBLISHER INDIAN SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

ADDRESS INDIAN SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION, IARI, PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI 110012 FORAGE RESEARCH SECTION, CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR 125004 (HARYANA). INDIAN SOCIETY OF GENETICS & PLANT BREEDING, POST BOX 11312, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI 110012 RAJASTHAN COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, UDAIPUR - 313001 (RAJASTHAN). DIRECTORATE OF OILSEEDS RESEARCH, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD - 500030. DIVISION OF FLORICULTURE AND LAND SCAPING, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012. DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY, PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (PAU), LUDHIANA 141004 NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETICRESOURCES, PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI 110012. DIVISION OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012. CENTRAL PLANTATION CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KASARAGOD - 671124 (KERALA). INDIAN INSTITUTE OF

URL

63.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF FORAGE RESEARCH

64.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF GENETICS & PLANT BREEDING

65.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF MYCOLOGY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY INDIAN SOCIETY OF OILSEED RESEARCH

66.

67.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANT PATHOLOGISTS

http://isoh-india.org/

68.

http://www.insopp.org/

69.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES

http://www.nbpgr.ernet.in/ispgr.htm

70.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY INDIAN SOCIETY OF PLANTATION CROPS

http://www.ispp-online.org/index.html

71.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Pla ntation_Crops

72.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF

28

SL.NO.

PUBLISHER PULSES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

ADDRESS PULSES RESEARCH, KALYANPUR, KANPUR 208024. INDIAN SOCIETY OF SALINITY RESEARCH SCIENTISTS. JODHPUR DIVISION OF SEED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012.

URL

73.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF SALINITY RESEARCH SCIENTISTS INDIAN SOCIETY OF SEED TECHNOLOGY

74.

75.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE

DIVISION OF SOIL http://www.isss-india.org SCIENCE & AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012.

76.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF N.B.S.S. AND L.U.P., SURVEY & LAND USE AMRAVATI ROAD, PLANNING NAGPUR - 440010 (M.S.). INDIAN SOCIETY OF INDIAN INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE SCIENCE VEGETABLE RESEARCH, VARANASI INDIAN SOCIETY OF WATER MANAGEMENT WATER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI - 110 012 DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY, CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR 125004, HARYANA COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCES, H.A.U., HISAR - 125004 (HARYANA) http://www.isvs.org/ http://www.iswam.in/index.html

77.

78.

79.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF WEED SCIENCE

80.

INDIAN SOCIETY VETERINARY SURGERY

81.

INDIAN VETERINARY 11, CHAMIERS ROAD, ASSOCIATION NANDANAM, CHENNAI 600035. INDIAN VIROLOGICAL SOCIETY INLAND FISHERIES SOCIETY OF INDIA CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, HISAR 125004 CENTRAL INLAND FISHERIES RESEARCH http://virologysociety.org/

82.

83.

http://www.ifsi.in/

29

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PUBLISHER

ADDRESS INSTITUTE, BARRACKPORE, KOLKATA - 700120, WEST BENGAL

URL

84.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PLANT MORPHOLOGISTS

INTERNATIONAL http://phytomorphology.tripod.com/ SOCIETY OF PLANT MORPHOLOGISTS, DEPT. OF BOTANY, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, DELHI JAWAHARLAL NEHRU KRISHI VISHWA VIDYALAYA, ADHARATAL, JABALPUR 482004, MADHYA PRADESH http://www.jnkvv.nic.in/

85.

JNKVV

86. 87.

KAU MADRAS AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS UNION MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

KERALA AGRICULTURAL http://www.kau.edu UNIVERISTY, THRISSUR TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE DIRECTORATE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS, BORIAVI, ANAND 387310 http://sites.google.com/site/majmasu/

88.

http://sites.gooogle.com/site/mapainidaorg

89.

MUSHROOM SOCIETY DIRECTORATE OF OF INDIA MUSHROOM RESEARCH, ICAR, CHAMBAGHAT, SOLAN - 173213 (H.P.) NEMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA ORISSA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PAU PDKV DIVISION OF NEMATOLOGY, IARI, PUSA CAMPUS 110012 DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE, O.U.A.T., BHUBANESWAR - 751003. PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, LUDHIANA DR. PANJABRAO DESHMUKH KRISHI VIDYAPEETH, AKOLA KANNANKURICHI, SALEM (TAMIL NADU) http://www.pau.edu http://pdkv.mah.nic.in/ http://www.nemaindia.com/

90.

91.

92. 93.

94.

PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PLANT PROTECTION

95.

NBPGR REGIONAL

30

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PUBLISHER ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

ADDRESS STATION, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD 500030

URL

96.

PROJECT DIRECTORATE FOR CROPPING SYSTEM RESEARCH

PROJECT DIRECTORATE http://www.pdcsr.ernet.in/ FOR CROPPING SYSTEM RESEARCH, MODIPURAM, MEERUT (U.P.)

97.

RAJASTHAN SOCIETY RAJASTHAN SOCIETY OF OF EXTENSION EXTENSION EDUCATION, EDUCATION MPUAT, UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RICE RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR ARID LEGUMES DIRECTORATE OF RICE RESEARCH (ICAR), RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD - 500030. CENTRAL ARID ZONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAZRI) CAMPUS, JODHPUR 34003 PROJECT DIRECTORATE OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, P.B.NO 2491, BANGALORE 560024, KARNATAKA KANNANKURICHI, SALEM (TAMIL NADU) http://sbaindia.tripod.com/

98.

99.

100. SOCIETY FOR BIOCONTROL ADVANCEMENT

101. SOCIETY FOR BIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

102. SOCIETY FOR NEW DELHI CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINAL PLANTS 103. SOCIETY FOR PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 104. SOCIETY FOR PLANT PROTECTION & ENVIRONMENT DIVISION OF BIOCHEMISTRY, I.A.R.I., NEW DELHI - 110012. DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, O.U.A.T., BHUBANSWAR 751003. DIRECTORATE OF OIL PALM RESEARCH, PEDAVEGI - 534450, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH http://dopr.gov.in/SOPOPRAD.htm

105. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF OIL PALM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

31

SL.NO.

PUBLISHER

ADDRESS

URL

106. SOCIETY FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH SOYBEAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR SOYBEAN, AND DEVELOPMENT KHANDWA ROAD, INDORE - 452017. 107. SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTRE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCMMENT OF HORTICULTURE, A-859, INDIRANAGAR, LUCKNOW-226016 ADVANCE RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT CENTRE OF RURAL ENVIRONMENT, 810, PASCHIMPURI, SIKANDRA, AGRA 282007. TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, IARI, PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI 110012 DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, I.A.R.I., PUSA, NEW DELHI 110012. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH, HESSARGHATTA LAKE POST, BANGALORE 560089. http://www.spsindia.co.in/index.html http://www.horticultureresearch.net/

108. SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION

http://www.seea.org.in/

109. SOCIETY OF EXTENSION EDUCATION, TNAU 110. SOCIETY OF PESTICIDE SCIENCE INDIA

111. SOCIETY OF PLANT PROTECTION SCIENCES

112. SOCIETY OF PROMOTION OF HORTICULTURE

113. SOIL CONSERVATION G-3, NATIONAL http://www.soilcsi.org/index.htm SOCIETY OF INDIA SOCIETIES BLOCK, NATIONAL CENTRE COMPLEX, DEV PRAKASH SHASTRI MARG, PUSA CAMPUS, NEW DELHI 110012. 114. SOUTH INDIAN HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE

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PUBLISHER

ADDRESS TAMIL NADU VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, COMMUNICATION CENTRE, HEBBAL, BANGALORE- 560024. UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, DHARWAD 580005 68 KSHUDIRAM BOSE SARANI, CALCUTTA, INDIA, 700 037

URL http://www.tanuvas.tn.nic.in/

115. TANUVAS

116. UAS BANGALORE

http://www.uasbangalore.edu.in/

117. UAS DHARWAD

http://www.uasd.edu/

118. WEST BENGAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION

Table 3. Journals in DOAJ

SL.NO. 1 2 JOURNALS JOURNAL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE MADRAS AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL VET SCAN JOURNAL OF SAT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH DISCIPLINE AGRICULTUR E AGRICULTUR E ISSN 0971-636X 0024-9602 PUBLISHER KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, THRISSUR, KERALA MADRAS AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS UNION, TNAU, COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU KASHVET SOCIETY, KASHMIR INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS, HYDERABAD

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ANIMAL SCIENCES AGRICULTUR E

0973-6980 0973-3094

Table 4. List of Journals using OJS

SL.NO. 1 JOURNAL JOURNAL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE DISCIPLINE AGRICULTURE ISSN PUBLISHER 0971-636X KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, THRISSUR, KERALA 0974-7877 MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES,

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MEDICINAL AND AND AROMATIC PLANTS AROMATIC PLANTS KARNATAKA JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

0972-1061

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JOURNAL

DISCIPLINE

ISSN 0047-8539

PUBLISHER DHARWAD UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, BANGALORE

MYSORE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (TESTING OJS)

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