In pursuit of its mandate to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries, staff at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) generate a wide range of research-based Information Products including a) publications, b) datasets, c) databases, d) software, application and source codes, e) audio, video, and images, f) tools and models, and g) websites and web services. IFPRI views the products of its research as International Public Goods and is committed to enabling their widespread distribution and use by providing unrestricted public access.
This view is in keeping with a broad scholarly interest to see knowledge and learning dispersed widely, and in keeping with the views of key Funders. As part of the CGIAR and as a research institute, IFPRI commits to free access to the knowledge it creates. The commitment to free knowledge takes the form of maintaining Open Access to Information Products produced at IFPRI, and for those that are produced outside IFPRI, giving preference for publication in Open Access sources, or purchasing Open Access rights.
This Information Products Open Access (IPOA) policy (hereafter referred to as the “Policy”) supports these goals by codifying the Institute’s priorities regarding Open Access for Information Products (see section 2 for definition). This policy serves as the umbrella under which IFPRI governs and manages all the information products, including the creation, storage, usage, description, transmission, publishing, archiving, and dissemination of all Information Products produced by IFPRI. This policy endeavors to ensure consistent application of the CGIAR Open Access and Data Management Policy dated October 2, 2013.
This policy complements the IFPRI Research Data Management Open Access (RDMOA) Policy (effective May 2019), which covers the management of Research Data only.
This policy supersedes the IFPRI Open Access Statement issued in 2012. It is also aligned with the IFPRI’s Intellectual Property Policy as approved by IFPRI’s Board of Trustees on October 22, 2005.
This policy should be read in conjunction with Relevant Policies (see section 9) that address the classification of Information Products that are created, stored, used, described, transmitted, published, archived, or disposed of by IFPRI.
Procedures, systems, processes, and guidelines that accompany this policy may be occasionally revised or updated to reflect changes in recommended practices, changes in the Institute, or for other reasons, as deemed necessary by the Institute. The policy covers all Information Products from 2012 onward. Information Products produced prior to the date are subject to copyright restrictions. IFPRI will digitize works upon request that are not already available digitally.
For the complete policy, click here.
November 2019