Open Access Week 2017
CIAT marks Open Access Week to highlight the practical benefits of open access to research.
This year marks the 10th iteration of the annual international Open Access Week (October 23 – October 29). During this week many global events take place to highlight the power of open access to all research outputs, in increasing the impact of scientific and scholarly research.
This year’s theme “Open in order to…” moves the conversation beyond talking about openness itself, to focusing on the benefits that openness enables (see examples: https://openinorder.to/). In CIAT we will use this opportunity to highlight a few cases where open access to research outputs such as publications, data, and models, has led or will lead to tangible benefits to the next users of CIAT research. Our OA Week blog series will highlight such cases, for example, where openness has revolutionized ecological and spatial modeling and how openness is going to help us fight malnutrition in Africa. The week’s activities will culminate in an open access week seminar and discussion where we will look into whether CIAT has what it takes to carry out open science/research throughout our research life cycle. The seminar will be hosted at CIAT headquarters on Thursday, October 26, 2017, at 3:00 pm at the Africa room.
To know more about openness at CIAT; open access, open data and open research in general, please write an email to CIAT-Library@cgiar.org or CIAT-DM@cgiar.org.
CIAT Champion of Open Science: Leroy Mwanzia
Throughout his university studies at Africa Nazarene University, where he studied computer science (B.S. degree), Leroy Mwanzia focused on only one thing: software development. So great was his passion that, after graduating, he turned down a computer networking opportunity at East Africa Breweries Limited and instead opted to become a lecturer at an affiliate training center of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), a job that paid much less. Two years later, he went to a different college to teach the UK-based BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computing.
Indicators of CIAT publications 2012-2017, science in figures
Elizabeth Campillo, CIAT information and documentation analyst, recently presented a bibliometric study of CIAT publications from 2012 to 2017. Between this period, a total of 928 articles were published in peer-reviewed journals, representing an average of 155 articles per year.
Sharing data wasn’t cool, but neither were we – how WorldClim changed my life
Some scientists believe their careers rely on keeping their data private. WorldClim proves precisely the opposite.
The power of open data: Innovation, improved agriculture, impact
Sharing data is not about giving it away but about giving it back, says Data and Information Manager Leroy Mwanzia.
Where in the world is there a cassava virus? This new app can show you.
PestDisPlace can serve as an early warning system for pests and diseases in crops.
Open in order to stop malnutrition in Africa
CIAT is using big data and machine learning to develop a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa.