Transcript IPR and licensing issues for on

IPR and licensing issues for on-line
publications – A CGIAR Perspective
Presented by Ajit Maru
International Service for National Agricultural Research
and
Central Advisory Service, CGIAR
Agenda
 CGIAR: An Introduction
 Perspectives
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Global
Within CGIAR
Between CG Centers and sub-centers
With NARS
 Conclusions
Consultative
Group for
International
Agricultural
Research
“CGIAR's mission is to contribute to
food security, poverty eradication
and sound management of natural
resources in developing countries
through research, partnership,
capacity building, and policy
support.”
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16 autonomous CG Centers
Around 100 sub-centers of all CG
Centers
13 Centers located in Developing
Countries, 3 in Developed Countries
14 Centers deal with food
commodities and 2 Centers with
policy
Perspectives
 Global
 Supports Global Initiatives such as:
 TEEAL
 INASP
 AGORA
 CGIAR-FAO INFOFINDER
Perspectives
 Global
 Cross-cutting global initiatives are very
challenging not only in funding, human and
technical capacity but also in interorganizational collaboration and IPR and
Copyright issues
 INFOFINDER success partly because
Copyright to documents searchable by it held
by participating institutions
Perspectives
 Within CGIAR
 Central Advisory Service on Intellectual
Property Rights
 Information Management Professionals
Community of Practice
 CGIAR Library Consortium
 CGNET
Perspectives
 Between CG Centers and Sub-centers
Subscription
Berne Convention as interpreted by National Laws
where CG Center Headquarter is located
Perspectives
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Between CG Centers and Sub-centers
Publication
On-line access to Libraries’ Catalogues through
Internet Websites
Full text on demand through hard copy and ARIEL
On-line access to publications through Intranet
View all Centers publications as global “public
goods” shareable non-commercially
Encourage publication through initiatives supported
by Budapest Open Access Initiative
Perspective
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With NARS
– Historically CGIAR and Centers in supporting
germplasm sharing and now encouraging sharing of
library collections and patent databases
– Initiatives
 ICRISAT and ICAR
 ICRISAT Virtual Library
 Knowledge bases On-line and on CD-ROM by
several CG Centers – ISNAR, ICRAF, IRRI
 Access to gray literature by CIAT
Conclusion
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CGIAR can be a global conduit to share
scientific publications with national systems
CGIAR can help protect intellectual
property rights of agricultural researchers
and innovators by enabling them to publish
on-line
Thank You