This document summarizes ILRI's commitments and plans for open access and open science. ILRI established an open access task force in 2017 to increase staff awareness and support open policies. Key recent activities include external reviews of repositories and increasing IP awareness. Future plans include analyzing digital transformation and including informatics in an organizational assessment. The document discusses why openness is important for impact, collaboration and safeguarding legacy. It outlines ILRI's aims to empower sharing, organize research outputs, and extend accessibility and visibility. Various approaches are presented for open data, knowledge, intellectual property and multimedia. Tracking attention through tools like Altmetric is also mentioned.

1. Open ILRI
Michael Victor, Abenet Yabowork, Jane Poole, Harrison Njamba, Erick Rutto,
Peter Ballantyne
ILRI open access week workshop
Nairobi, 23 – 25 October 2019

2. Why be open?
We must We should

3. ILRI commitments
ILRI open policies - www.ilri.org/open
ILRI open Taskforce - Set up in 2017 comprising DDG (Chair),
representatives from CKM, RMG and Legal & IP, Program Leaders and
CRP Livestock director.
• Key recent activities:
• External review of our repositories
• IPM awareness
• Increasing staff awareness and support materials (this week!)
• Future plans:
• ILRI Digital Transformation analysis (through the Big Data CRP
Platform)
• ILRI Organisational Assessment will include Informatics and
Research Computing

4. Open opportunities
• Allows direct use of our
work;
• Increases its visibility;
• Increases likelihood of
outcomes and impact;
• Fosters collaboration;
• Facilitates re-use of
products
• Safeguards legacy
API
standards
OPEN
formats
products
articles,
books,
chapters
data
software
code licences
repositories

5. What do we mean by open?
Accessible
(Standards, meta-
data to expose
data)
Available (in open
repositories)
Applicable
(open processes,
accessible in
languages and
formats)
Triple A approach

6. What does open cover?
Source: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/what-open-science-introduction

7. What we are aiming for?
• Empower staff to capture,
connect and converse: share
knowledge with each other
and partners; get the
knowledge they seek;
• Collect, organize and license
all ILRI research outputs for
maximum re-use
• Extend the accessibility and
visibility of ILRI’s research
outputs
• Present ‘evidence base’ for
others to easily find and use

8. Exercise
With a couple of people next to you:
Why do you think open is important?
What’s holding us back from being open?

9. How to make your research open

10. The glue holding it together: metadata and tags

11. Open Information Products (also images, video,
presentations, smaller datasets, etc …)

12. Open Data

13. Open Knowledge Sharing
• Wikis at the core of collaboration
• Stimulating communities of practice
• Yammer as internal communications tool

14. Open Intellectual Property (IP)

15. Open multimedia

16. Working out loud
Facebook
Twitter
linkedin

17. Reach of ILRI across the web
When open

18. Exercise
With a couple of people next to you:
Which of these approaches are most useful to
you?
Have you come across something better?

19. The power of open – Throughout the research cycle
Data
collection
Data analysis
Data re-use to
key
stakeholders
Outputs
(visualise
open content)
Knowledge
travels
(standard
content)
Tracking
attention

20. ODK - free and open source software to collect
better quality data

21. R – free and open source platform to analyse
and visualize data

22. ADGG: open data drives information and advice to
farmers

23. AReS: visualizes our open content
Current link while we’re updating reports: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/explorer/

24. Standardized open content easily re-used across
the Internet

25. Altmetric – tracks ‘attention’ to our open
content
• Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are
complementary to traditional, citation-based
metrics
• Includes citations on Wikipedia and in public policy
documents, discussions on research blogs,
mainstream media coverage, bookmarks on
reference managers like Mendeley, and mentions
on social networks such as Twitter.

26. Agenda this week
https://www.ilri.org/open-access-week
Thursday and Friday at 1130 – inspirational
presentations; JVC and Addis Infocenter rooms and on
webex
Wednesday to Friday between 1400-1600:
• data clinic – Nairobi outside JVC
• twitter clinic – Addis zebu club
• get yourself open – helpdesk – Addis and Nairobi

27. Exercise
With a couple of people next to you:
What do you need from ILRI for your research to
become open?
What are you doing that ILRI can learn from?

28. Agenda this week
https://www.ilri.org/open-access-week
Thursday and Friday at 1130 – inspirational
presentations; JVC and Addis Infocenter rooms and on
webex
Wednesday to Friday between 1400-1600:
• data clinic – Nairobi outside JVC
• twitter clinic – Addis zebu club
• get yourself open – helpdesk – Addis and Nairobi

29. This presentation is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
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