Presented by Peter Ballantyne at the ILRI-ICAR Workshop on Communication and Knowledge Management in Animal Science Research and Development, New Delhi, 4 March 2016

1. Open access / open publishing at the
International Livestock Research
Institute
Peter Ballantyne
ILRI-ICAR Workshop on Communication and Knowledge Management in Animal
Science Research and Development
New Delhi, 4 March 2016

2. The Challenge
• Increase uptake of research products
• Make research widely available and accessible
• Produce international public goods (whose
benefits can travel across borders)
• Enhance communication and collaboration
and impact by working in the open

3. OUR RESEARCH RESULTS, OUTPUTS, PRODUCTS

4. How they should be!

5. The approach - Steps we took
• Late 2008 – review of ILRI’s KM
• Late 2009 – open repository
• Late 2009 – google books 100% open
• Early 2010 – management buy-in (creative commons,
repository, social media, open access)
• Late 2013 – CGIAR OA policy
• Early 2014 – ILRI data portals
• Mid 2014 – CGIAR OA guidelines
• Late 2014 – ILRI OA and research data ‘plan’
• Early 2015 – ILRI OA policy and research data
management policy

6. Open projects – work in progress

7. Open presentations

8. Open photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ilri

9. Open on social networking
Facebook
Twitter
linkedin

10. Open books

11. Open video

12. Open reports and repository

13. Open source

14. Open data

15. Open news

16. Open to re-use

17. Open for feedback

18. Working in the open!
“bringing activities out of closed repositories
and applications [and events and processes],
and pulling them into the open increases the
likelihood of learning information earlier.”
- Stowe Boyd:
http://blog.podio.com/2011/08/01/working-
out-loud-make-work-open-to-make-it-better

19. Total web service views
'Open'

20. Composition of ILRI web services views

21. Key Lessons
• Not by books and journals alone!
• Culture of ‘open’ … listening, sharing, engaging
• Social media opens flows and visibility and engagement
• Open licenses, open standards and metadata allow
aggregation and re-use
• Attend to the workflows
• Needs $$$ for articles
• Questions on metrics and ‘impact factors’
• Take care of privacy and ethics
• Incentives and rewards and recognition (and
management buy-in)