Sridhar Gutam, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research,Bengaluru, IndiaAgricultural Research Service scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research.Convenor, Open Access India. He holds PhD in Plant Physiology from ICAR-IndianAgricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. His area of interest is Plant Physiology ofAgricultural and Horticultural Crops, Plant Phenology, Open Access,  Open Data and FOSS inin Agricultural Research. He is an alumnus of CLACSO working group on Commons andOpen Access and is currently on the board of agriRxiv, IndiaRxiv, Thesis Commons, Redalyc-AmeliCA, and Dryad. He can be reached @SridharGutam