Publications
ILRI produces a wide range of publications and other outputs.
- Research publications: A range of publication types including longer research reports, policy briefs, discussion papers and training manuals/modules. In-house review, layout and editing. Can accommodate different purposes from final research output to preliminary findings.
- Project Documents and Reports: Produced by projects and programs according to their own standards and for different purposes.
- Posters: Produced by projects and scientists for scientific meetings and as explanatory information on projects, issues, themes, etc. They offer an accessible, low-cost channel for dissemination, typically to a smaller one-off audience.
- Presentations: Usually prepared and delivered by individuals at various events. Valuable as they often provide insights into projects and thinking along the course of a piece of research.
- Film and Video: Increasingly recognized as offering very attractive and accessible ways to communicate a project or issue. Can be more for general public awareness or used as tools in reporting and sharing knowledge in an activity.
- Audio and Podcasts: Similar to video, audio can be recorded and published alongside other channels.
- Blogs, Wikis, Websites, etc: The ‘social media’ revolution that is simplifying the creation and publishing of web content, facilitating interaction and conversations among individuals, and transforming the traditional ‘broadcast’ approach to communication. Provides much scope for projects to set up and manage their own web communications alongside heavier corporate investments.
- Journal Articles: Traditionally the top-of-the-line scientific output, staff are encouraged to publish in the most suitable, and ‘high-impact’ titles possible. Unless they are open access, they are much less accessible by many of our partners.
- External Books and Chapters: Similar to journal articles, with normally even less opportunity to make the content fully open access.
- Corporate Publications: Various categories of outputs, normally produced by Public Awareness aiming to reach and inform funders, sponsors, partners and general audiences.
Our activities in this area are guided by our emerging publishing strategy and Publishing Committee.
In December 2010, ILRI Management adopted an open 'creative commons' license to be used for ILRI-generated research outputs
All our publications are available online:
- through Mahider, our institutional repository
- through Google Books:
(view previous archive outputs)
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