The document outlines the open access policies and practices of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), detailing various journals and their publication histories. It emphasizes the benefits of open access, including increased readership and downloads, and mandates that scholarly articles produced by ICAR scientists must be deposited in institutional repositories. The policy also encourages the sharing of research through public platforms and establishes guidelines for self-archiving and embargo periods.

1. Open Access in Agriculture
Rameshwar Singh
ICAR, New Delhi

2. 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)

3. 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

4. ……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

5. ……contd
• 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. NUMBER OF ONLINE REGISTERED
READERS– YEAR WISE
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Indian 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

10. NUMBER OF USERS ACCESSING THE
ONLINE JOURNALS– YEAR WISE
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
No. of
Users 18,158 1,44,217 1,93,436 2,45,364 1,67,682

11. Outreach/Usage
Parameter Statistics
Total No. of Page
Views
4,683,702
Avg. Pages/ session 6.15
Access from
212
Countries (Nos.)
Top Ten Countries India, China, Iran, USA,
Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt,
Brazil, Bangladesh, Malaysia

12. NUMBER OF ARTICLE DOWNLOADS –
YEAR WISE
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total
The 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
5
108180 289509
Fisheries Technology 211 1480 3013 2483 7187

13. Article downloads
30000
20000
10000
0
Indian Journal of Agricultural
Sciences
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

14. Article hits downloads
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
IndiaTnhe IJnodiaun Jronurnaall o fo Anfi mAal nSciiemncesal Sciences
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

15. Article hits downloads
Indian Journal of Fisheries
150000
100000
50000
0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

16. Article hits downloads
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Fishery Technology
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

17. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Source: Web of Science

18. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences
Citations in each year
Source: Web of Science

19. Indian Journal of Fisheries
Citations in each year
Source: Web of Science

20. Citations in Each Year
Potato Journal
Source:
http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=jFr7DTwAAAAJ&hl=en

21. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Source: SJR - SCOPUS

22. Browse by Document Type
Please 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)

23. 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.

24. 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/

25. 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

26. 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.

27. ….. 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.

28. • 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.

29. • 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.

30. • 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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31. Thank You
Looking Forward to Implement the Policy with
your cooperation