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Open Access Journal Publishing in the Agricultural Sciences 
 
Thomas Abraham, Nagaraj Vaidya, Vimal Kumar,Sridhar Gutam and Aneeja Guttikonda thomas@oksociety.org 
 
Open Knowledge Society, India 
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Historically, Agricultural Research & Education in India have been in the public domain.
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National Agricultural Research System (NARS) is the largest system in the world.
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR): Apex organization for promotion of Agricultural Research & Education in India.
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5 National Institutes; 5 National Bureaux 
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48 ICAR Research Institutes 
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138 Substations of ICAR Institutes 12 Project Directorates in crop sciences and animal sciences 
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30 National Research Centres; 77 All India Coordinated Research Projects 
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41 State Agricultural Universities 
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1 Central Agricultural University 
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Agricultural Research & Education in India 
 
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~100 professional societies in agriculture & allied disciplines are working for the advancement of their respective disciplines by publishing scholarly journals.
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These scholarly journals are the only vehicles of scientific information dissemination in India.
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All these journals have ISSN numbers and rated by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) on the scale of 1 to 10.
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Only 23 have their own websites and only 20 are in Thomson Reuters Master Journal List and many of them are not online .
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As researcher's output is measured by number of research  papers X Impact Factor (IF)/NAAS Rating, the researchers send their articles first to international journals with high impact factor.
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