Making ILRI research accessible
and open through CGSpace
Abenet Yabowork
Knowledge Curation Manager
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
14 April 2020
Better lives through livestock

What is CGSpace?
• Open digital repository of agricultural research outputs and
results produced by ILRI and (various CGIAR centers,
research programs and projects)
• Supports 7 CGIAR centres, 5 CRPs, the System
Management Office and Alliance of Bioversity International
and CIAT
• It is hosted by the International Livestock Research
Institute

Why organize our information products through CGSpace?
• CGSpace enables ILRI to:
- ensure CGIAR open access requirement are met
- make information easy to find using any search engine
- a primary location for institutional outputs!
- ‘index’ everything, wherever published
- each one of our research outputs get permanent identifier
- decentralize content management
- Content people embedded in each department in the
various regions help capture results (presentations, papers,
brochures, etc.)
- have a publishing and alerting platform

CGSpace: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/

ILRI community on CGSpace: Home Page
Quick links
to
programs,
projects,
CRPs
Narrow
search
results
Find content

ILRI community on CGSpace: Home Page
Browse by
type of
document
Browse by
departments

Project collection for BUILD

CGSpace: Item page
Bibliographic
info
Information on
social media,
news outlets,
policy documents
etc.
Bibliographic
info
Permanent link to cite
or share this item

CGSpace publishes to other ILRI platforms!

CGSpace: Publishes to Website
CGSpace
outputs
on ILRI Website
using the REST
API

CGSpace
outputs
from RSS
CGSpace: Publishes to Intranet

CGSpace: Publishes to Twitter
CGSpace
outputs
from RSS

CGSpace: Publishes to Blogs
CGSpace
outputs
from RSS

CGSpace: Publishes to e-mail
CGSpace
outputs
from RSS

CGSpace explorer: AReS

Agricultural Research e-Seeker: cgspace.cgiar.org/explorer
• Visualizes content
around different
metadata filters
• Visualizations and
reports based on
content from
different repositories
can be exported
• enhances content
discovery for users

Journals @ ILRI

https://maarifa.ilri.org/ilri-journals-list/
• Subscription to over 2,000 Elsevier online journals and
others though the CGIAR libraries and INASP
• You can activate ScienceDirect remote access to
journals/use VPN to access
• Open access, online and print journals

Quick tips to help you identify predatory journals:
• Journal title or publisher is unfamiliar
• Lures you in with a very good sounding offer
• Journal title sounds very respectable
• Article submission costs are not transparent
• Uses address in prominent city
• Editorial board claims prominent university affiliation
• Review system is unclear
• Journal title not present in Directory of Open Access Journals or
other indexes commonly used

About 620 ILRI staff work in Africa and Asia to enhance incomes and livelihoods, improve food security, and reduce disease
and environmental degradation. Australian animal scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Peter Doherty serves as ILRI’s patron.
Organizations that fund ILRI through their contributions to CGIAR make ILRI’s work possible. Organizations that partner ILRI in
its mission make livestock research for development a reality.
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