Thanks to all... I am happy that my thread has lead the members to another discussion on Indian journals. Let me tell my experience.. When I had attended few interviews, international papers where much favored than those papers published in Indian journals there. Let me tell you that our first priority was "the reachability of the findings to the scientific community" when we tried to publish these. Unfortunately none of our Indian taxonomy journals are available online( except Nelumbo & & Rheedea..!!).
Also I would like to add.. I found it difficult to collect those papers published in Indian journals than foreign journals during my literature survey. Still I am in search for some papers published in some Indian journals from Bengal Botanical Society. I couldn't even find a copy of them in CAL too. when I wrote to the librarian of *www.biodiversityheritagelibrary.org* about including Indian journals in their website, she told me that they do not have much access to Indian Journals.. Anyway, I came to know that, all the volumes of *Rheedea *will be available through *biodiversityheritagelibrary *soon. I hope the scenario will be changed soon.. Anyway, Vijay ji, Ritesh ji, am considering an Indian journal for my next paper, which is under progress..!!! [?][?] For those who need the reprints of the paper, please drop me a mail.. Am out of station now. Will be sending the reprint soon, when I am back to my lab. with warm regards On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Ritesh Choudhary <ritesh....@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Vijay Anna! > > Little difference of opinion... > > I think publishing a new species in some foreign journal with good > impact factor is not bad. They can be reached more easily to the > scientific community than those published at the local level. Still > most of the Indian plant taxonomy journals are not available online. > You've to face a lot of trouble to find articles published in journals > like Indian Forester, Indian Journal of Forestry or many more. > Thankfully, Nelumbo (Bull. Bot. Surv. India) and Rheedea are available > online for a couple of months but still they cannot be found under the > SCI Index or other databases like Science Direct or Scopus. And as far > as the payment to read an article is concerned....even the most > popular Indian taxonomy journal JETB (J. Econ. Taxon. Bot.) is not > available freely. > > But, yes,, I would be happy if somebody publishes the new > distributional records or anything related in particular context to > India to the Indian Journals. > > Hope u'll b agree (not angry ;-)) with my points. > > Best regards, > Ritesh. > > -- *Manudev K Madhavan* Junior Research Fellow Systematic & Floristic Lab, Department of Botany, Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research St. Joseph's College, Devagiri Kozhikode- 673 008 Mob: 9496470738
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