Publications

Open Access is one of the key pillars of ILRI’s organizational objectives. We believe that open access contributes to our mission of reducing hunger and poverty and improve the lives of smallholder farmers through research.

In 2010, ILRI's management committee adopted an ILRI strategy on research publishing. This said that the institute would intentionally move towards making its research and other products more accessible. It also talked of open access and agreed that ILRI information products would have a creative commons license. This was the start of a concerted move towards more open information and data products, platforms and services at ILRI.

Here you can find links to important policy and planning documents. You can also find links to platforms where we publish our knowledge openly. We also point to several other stories and resources about our open experiences.

Key documents

• LRI open access/open data implementation plan, 2015-2018
• ILRI policy on the management of intellectual assets
• ILRI policy on open access
• ILRI policy on research data management and sharing
• ILRI research data management and sharing implementation guidelines
• ILRI research publishing procedure 6: Open access checklist

Platforms and services

• Repository of ILRI's information products
• Data resources at ILRI
• Source code on GitHub

Read about our open access experiences

• Open access to ILRI's data (Nov 2014)
• Open access; open facilitation: One week, two good ideas (Oct 2014)
• Sharing ILRI’s research with open access (Sep 2014)
• Workshop on discoverability of African scholarship features ILRI communication approaches (Mar 2014)
• Making ILRI’s research ‘open’ and accessible (Oct 2012)
• Using open knowledge and innovation to support program learning at ILRI (Jun 2012)
• From mahider to CGSpace: Moving our research outputs to open repositories (Jan 2012)
• ILRI adopts Creative Commons license for its research outputs (Dec 2010)