Open Access in Agriculture - ICAR Perspectice

Open Access in Agriculture

Rameshwar SinghICAR, New Delhi

Opening up with ICAR Journals• Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences• Indian Journal of Animal Sciences

– Flagship journals of ICAR– Started 84 years ago– Online publication started in 2010– Full contents in open access from 1994 onwards (vol. 64

onwards)– 12 issues a year

• Indian Journal of Fisheries– Current Volume: 61 (4 issues per year)– Archives from: Vol 8 (1961)

Journals from Professional Societies• Fishery Technology Publisher: Society of Fisheries Technologists (India) Current Vol: 51 (4 issues /year from 2012, Earlier 2/year) Archives from: Vol 27 (1990), total 54 issues uploaded

No missing gap since archiving

• Potato Journal current vol. 41 (2 issues/year) Archives from Vol 31 (2004), In all 21 issues uploaded – no gap Publisher: Indian Potato Association, Shimla

……contd

• Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Publisher: Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India Current Vol. 5 (2 issues/year) Available from Vo. 1 (2010)

• Journal of Agricultural Engineering Current Vol. 51 (4 issues/year) Archives from Vol. 37 (56 issues uploaded) Publisher: Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers

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• Annals of Agricultural Research– Current Vol. 35 (4 issues/year)– Archives from: Vol. 26– Publisher: Indian Society of Agricultural Science

• Indian Journal of Hill Farming– Current Vol. 27 (2 issues/year)– Archives from 2013 (only one issue)– Publisher: Indian Society of Hill Agriculture

Recently Added Journals• Journal of Wheat Research Current Vol. 6 (2 issues/year) Archives from Vol. 4 Publisher: Society for Advancement of Wheat Research

• Indian Journal of Veterinary Medicine Current Vol. 33

Publisher: The Indian Society for Veterinary Medicine

• Indian Journal of Veterinary Anatomy Current Vol. 26 (2 issues/year), Archives from Vol. 24 Publisher: Indian Association of Veterinary Anatomists

• International Journal on Agricultural Sciences Publisher: National Environmental Science Academy Current Vol. 5

• Indian Journal of Dairy Science Publisher: Indian Dairy Association Current Vol. 67 (6 issues/year, Archives from 2012

• Indian Phytopathology Current Vol. 67 (4 issues/year) Archives from: Vol 43 (1990) Publisher: Indian Phytopathological Socciety Only abstracts are available in open access

Benefits of open Access

• Increase in readership/registered users• Increase in number of users accessing the

journals• Increase in downloads of full texts• Increase in citation of papers

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2355 5630 9420 13240 19972

The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 1816 3780 6078 8716 10320

Indian Journal of Fisheries 4534 8765 11109 14416

Fisheries Technology 456 786 1054 1286

NUMBER OF ONLINE REGISTERED READERS– YEAR WISE

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

No. of Users 18,158 1,44,217 1,93,436 2,45,364 1,67,682

NUMBER OF USERS ACCESSING THE ONLINE JOURNALS– YEAR WISE

Parameter StatisticsTotal No. of Page Views

4,683,702

Avg. Pages/ session 6.15Access from Countries (Nos.)

212

Top Ten Countries India, China, Iran, USA, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, Bangladesh, Malaysia

Outreach/Usage

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 TotalThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 3735 15588 22601 26764 19777 88465

The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 3883 15156 21745 22418 16703 79905

Indian Journal of Fisheries 17778 62026 10152

5108180 289509

Fisheries Technology 211 1480 3013 2483 7187

NUMBER OF ARTICLE DOWNLOADS – YEAR WISE

Article downloads

2010 2011 2012 2013 201405000

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Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Article hits downloads

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15000

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25000The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesIndian Journal of Animal Sciences

Article hits downloads

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014020000400006000080000

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Indian Journal of Fisheries

Article hits downloads

2010 2011 2012 2013 20140

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3500 Fishery Technology

Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Source: Web of Science

Indian Journal of Animal SciencesCitations in each year

Source: Web of Science

Indian Journal of FisheriesCitations in each year

Source: Web of Science

Citations in Each Year

Potato Journal

Source: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=jFr7DTwAAAAJ&hl=en

Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Source: SJR - SCOPUS

Browse by Document TypePlease select a value to browse from the list below.•Article (7024)•Book (317)•Book Section (584)•Conference or Workshop Item (958)•Dataset (14)•Image (28)•Monograph (370)•Other (83)•Teaching Resource (310)•Thesis (178)•Video (13)

Eprints@CMFRI is the Open Access Institutional Repository of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.

Research outputs of CMFRI - journal papers, conference papers, reports, theses, patents etc. - are uploaded/self-archived by CMFRI scientists who do research on fisheries and related areas.

Interested users can freely download and use documents as most of them are directly accessible and full-text downloadable.

'Request Copy' forms can be used for documents to which direct full-text download is restricted due to publisher embargo.

Open learning Resources ICAR E-Courses

1 B.Sc.(Agriculture)2 B.V.Sc.(Veterinary & AH)3 B.F.Sc.(Fisheries Science)4 B.Tech. (Dairy Technology)5 B.Sc.(Home Science)6 B.Tech.(Agricultural Engineering)7 B. Sc. (Horticulture)

http://ecourses.iasri.res.in/

Other Initiatives

Krishi Kosh– Digital Repository of Theses and digitsed books

Knowledge Portals and Expert Systems --- Rice Knowledge Portal --- Agropedia --- Expert systems on different crops

ICAR Adopts Open Access Policy

• Each ICAR institute to setup an Open Access Institutional Repository.

• ICAR shall setup a central harvester to harvest the metadata and full-text of all the records from all the OA repositories

• All the meta-data and other information of the institutional repositories are copyrighted with the ICAR. These are licensed for use, re-use and sharing for academic and research purposes. Commercial and other reuse requires written permission.

….. ICAR Policy Contd.• The institutes are free to place their unpublished reports in

their open access repository. They are encouraged to share their works in public repositories like YouTube and social networking sites like Facebook ®, Google+, etc. along with appropriate disclaimer.

• The authors of the scholarly articles produced from the research conducted at the ICAR institutes have to deposit immediately the final authors version manuscripts of papers accepted for publication (pre-prints and post-prints) in the institute’s Open Access repository.

• Scientists and other research personnel of the ICAR working in all ICAR institutes or elsewhere are encouraged to publish their research work with publishers which allow self- archiving in Open Access Institutional Repositories.

• All publications viz., research articles, popular articles, monographs, catalogues, conference proceedings, success stories, case studies, annual reports, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, bulletins, summary of the completed projects, speeches, and other grey literatures available with the institutes to be placed under Open Access.

• The authors of the scholarly literature produced from the research funded in whole or part by the ICAR or by other Public Funds at ICAR establishments are required to deposit the final version of the author's peer-reviewed manuscript in the ICAR institute’s Open Access Institutional Repository.

• Scientists are advised to mention the ICAR’s Open Access policy while signing the copyright agreements with the publishers and the embargo, if any, should not be later than 12 months.

• M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis/dissertations (full contents) and summary of completed research projects to be deposited in the institutes open access repository after completion of the work. The metadata (e.g., title, abstract, authors, publisher, etc.) be freely accessible from the time of deposition of the content and their free unrestricted use through Open Access can be made after an embargo period not more than 12 months.

• All the journals published by the ICAR have been made Open Access. Journals, conference proceedings and other scholarly literature published with the financial support from ICAR to the professional societies and others, to be made Open.

• The documents having material to be patented or commercialised, or where the promulgations would infringe a legal commitment by the institute and/or the author, may not be included in institute’s Open Access repository. However, the ICAR scientists and staff as authors of the commercial books may negotiate with the publishers to share the same via institutional repositories after a suitable embargo period.

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Thank You

Looking Forward to Implement the Policy with your cooperation