General – aimed at Senior Managers and Directors

Work with publishers who have flexible policies on open access

R, I

Develop an institutional rights policy and guidelines for Open Access

M, I

Make content available through global services like AGORA, TEEAL, OARE and Google Books

M, R, I

Repository – collection, capture and curation of outputs

Put in place institutional policies that enable the sustainable development of a repository

M, I

Building an institutional or thematic repository

3 / 4 ;

Responsibilities for 2 and 3 : HB will set up structure for the case studies NARIMs (AR) , IIAP (VM), Cornell,USA (JF), FAO (JK),Wageningen UR (HB), Thai Agris Center (AT) Elis (IS), HB will contact organic eprints

Digitize older outputs, to be 'born again' digital

Broken links

RK HB

Issues of preservation of documents and data

SA VM HB

Standards – GIS and BIO INFORM

M, I

Web Presence – making content as widely accessible as possible

Making your repository accessible: (Registration of repositories, Sitemaps, RSS Feeds)

JF (VP?)

Optimize the content and structure of your website for search

Using Web 2.0 solutions for your Website. Why, how and which?

R, C

Beyond articles and reports: try out 'social' media

R, C

Beyond articles and reports: video

R, C

Publish and promote outputs with newsfeeds

R, C

Analyse how your IR/websites are being used. Put this knowledge to use

I, C

Set up added value services that query across platforms

Getting your outputs out – AGRIS, CABI, Google Scholar

M, I, C

Make content accessible across web, email, phone, and radio

Repackage research outputs to make them more 'usable' by other stakeholders

Communicate research messages to the mainstream and specialist media and other 'users'

Communicate research messages for web, email, and phone

Engage with partners to enhance communication with other stakeholder groups

A number of ‘ pathways proposed by the CMTF have been identified by the writing team as “issues” , pieces to which one or more pathways can refer for clarification.

(The renumbering in the first column are my proposal (and therefore in italics))

Tools to manage institutional Repositories [new]

Tools to manage bibliographical data

Metadata standards and Vocabularies, what is the business case?

Using Agricultural Thesauri

The AGRIS AP for DLIOS, how to use it

Namespaces and Application Profile: for what are they good?