Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This is especially important in agriculture and nutrition research where quick, unrestricted access to knowledge is crucial to solving urgent issues including food security, biodiversity conservation, and emerging infectious diseases in crops and animals. This webinar will cover how the novel approaches taken by the publication venue Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development (OKAD) and the publishing platform it is hosted on, F1000Research, are addressing these issues. OKAD publishes academic articles, posters and slide presentations involving open knowledge projects within all areas of agriculture, nutrition and agro-biodiversity. By using F1000Research’s post-publication peer review platform, OKAD ensures rapid access to research within days of submission. Experts are invited to peer review upon publication, and their signed peer review reports are published alongside the article. All articles and any associated data and code are made publically available.

1. Thomas Ingraham
Publishing Editor, F1000Research
thomas.ingraham@f1000.com
Publishing Agricultural Research
A Different Approach

2. PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
The point of publishing agricultural research:
Main Variables Access Time Quality
Traditional system Paywalls/Open Slow Irreproducibility
Article only Peer review?
What is needed Open Quick Reproducible
Diverse Peer review known

3. Presentations
Articles
(diverse) Posters
Reviews
DataCode
IMPROVING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
+ 9-30%

4. REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES

5. REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES
Indexers

6. REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES
80 28
7 66
+ 101 days of being visible, shareable & citable
+ 35 days of knowing quality of research
Rejection
1 1
1 1
Days inaccessible
Days accessible
Virulent infection case
doubling time
Ag Journal
Published
Published 2 reviews
Next Journal
Final
Decision
Key
Plant Biology, Ecology &
Environmental Science

7. ENSURING QUALITY
- Improved reproducibility by
including open data and
code
- Open signed peer review:
allows assessment and
improves reviews
- Versioning (dynamic
citations)
- http://f1000research.com/arti
cles/3-298/v2
- F1000 Recommendations
- http://f1000research.com/arti
cles/2-235/v1

8. - Technical and cultural barriers to
Open Knowledge
- OKAD a place to openly publish and
share the outcomes of OK work
- Scope: All agricultural Open Access,
Open Data, Open Source & Open
Educational initiatives
- Articles (diverse), posters and slides
(and soon documents) in line with
F1000Research model
- Median time to 2 reviews: 35 days
OPEN KNOWLEDGE IN AGRICULTURE
http://f1000research.com/channels/okad

9. FINDING AGRICULTURAL CONTENT ON F1000RESEARCH
http://f1000research.com/channels/okad http://f1000research.com/subjects/399