1. 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

2. Agenda  CGIAR: An Introduction  Perspectives  Global  Within CGIAR  Between CG Centers and sub-centers  With NARS  Conclusions

3. Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research

4. “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.”

5.  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

7. Perspectives  Global  Supports Global Initiatives such as:  TEEAL  INASP  AGORA  CGIAR-FAO INFOFINDER

8. Perspectives  Global  Cross-cutting global initiatives are very challenging not only in funding, human and technical capacity but also in inter- organizational collaboration and IPR and Copyright issues  INFOFINDER success partly because Copyright to documents searchable by it held by participating institutions

9. Perspectives  Within CGIAR  Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property Rights  Information Management Professionals Community of Practice  CGIAR Library Consortium  CGNET

10. Perspectives  Between CG Centers and Sub-centers  Subscription Berne Convention as interpreted by National Laws where CG Center Headquarter is located Berne Convention as interpreted by National Laws where CG Center Headquarter is located

11. Perspectives  Between CG Centers and Sub-centers  Publication On-line access to Libraries’ Catalogues through Internet Websites On-line access to Libraries’ Catalogues through Internet Websites Full text on demand through hard copy and ARIEL Full text on demand through hard copy and ARIEL On-line access to publications through Intranet On-line access to publications through Intranet View all Centers publications as global “public goods” shareable non-commercially View all Centers publications as global “public goods” shareable non-commercially Encourage publication through initiatives supported by Budapest Open Access Initiative Encourage publication through initiatives supported by Budapest Open Access Initiative

12. Perspective  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

13. Conclusion  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

14. Thank You