Working Drafts

Working drafts of the CIARD Pathways as listed below have been published so that stakeholders can study them and assess how relevant and appropriate they are.  If you log in to the site, you can comment on any of the Pathways on the relevant page, which we strongly encourage you to do.  Depending on the comments received, the Pathways will be revised periodically.  We also encourage suggestions for entirely new Pathways, or even Groups of Pathways.

“As well as being high quality, public good research outputs
should be as widely available, accessible and applicable as possible.”

Group 1: Developing Institutional Readiness [read more >>]

• Advocate the benefits of the digital accessibility of content
• License Content to Encourage Use and Re-use
• Work with Publishers who have Flexible Policies on Open Access

Group 2: Collection and Preservation [read more >>]  

• Digitize older outputs, to be 'born again' digital
• Put in place institutional policies that enable the sustainable development of a repository
• Preservation of digital documents and data
• Develop a Repository for Digital Content
  Repository Development Case Studies:
  • A new challenge: an Agricultural Knowledge Repository for Thailand
  • E-LIS - E-prints in Library and Information Science
  • NARIMS - National Agriculture Research Information Management System
  • WaY (Wageningen Yield) - The Repository of Wageningen University and Research Centre
• Maintaining web links and managing broken links

Group 3: Making Content Widely Accessible on the Web [read more >>]  

• Disseminating research outputs – international databases
• Making a website's content visible on the Web
• Set up added value services that query across platforms
• Publish and promote outputs with newsfeeds
• Using social media to communicate research outputs
• Using video to communicate research outputs
• Using Web 2.0 solutions for your Website
• Analyse how your websites are being used. Put this knowledge to use