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.
