CABI Updates USAIN Minneapolis. Paul Rogers Business Development Manager

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1 CABI Updates USAIN Minneapolis Paul Rogers Business Development Manager

2 CAB Abstracts Key Figures Over 6.7 million records 353k records added in 2011 (vs 330k in 2010) 7836 serials indexed, from 117 countries in over 50 languages, including 447 new serials in 2011 Over 145,000 Full Text Records (20k added in 2011) from over 600 journals plus conferences over 70% non-open access

3 CAB Abstracts Full Text Updates Full Text for over 145,000 records 60% Journal articles, 39% Conference papers Small, but growing number of reports 78% English Over 600 journals from 76 countries Over 70% of journals not Open Access

4 CAB Abstracts Key Titles Journals Int. Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food Canada South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture South Africa CARDI Review Trinidad Soybean Genetics Newsletter USA Conferences Proceedings of the Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA th Annual Congress of the South African Sugar Technologists' Association 2011 International Development Research Centre (IDRC) publications 2005

5 CABI Compendia Key updates Animal Health and Production Compendium, Aquaculture Compendium, Crop Protection Compendium and Forestry Compendium Invasive Species Compendium open access and fully launched in 2012 key strategic partnership with USDA All compendia now available on common internet-based platform allowing weekly content updates

6 CAB ebooks Collections and Reference Work CAB ebooks Frontfile date collection front file lease purchase, 114* titles across CABI s subject areas CAB ebooks Interim Archive one-off purchase back file , 158 titles across CABI s subject areas CAB ebooks Archive one-off purchase back file , 240 titles across CABI s subject areas CAB eref Works key dictionaries, encyclopaedias and taxonomic keys

7 Discovery Services Proprietary Content vs Non-proprietary Content All CABI proprietary full text content (Books, Reviews, Maps and Descriptions) is included CAB Abstracts and Global Health are NOT included. The discovery services will have metadata for some of the records in CAB Abstracts Lack of historical depth and hard-to-find and grey literature content CABI adopts the same policy for all discovery services

8 CABI Enhancing access in the South Partnership with FAO to provide metadata for Agora for the primary journals Work with INASP through their PERii project to provide access to CAB Abstracts in Tanzania and Uganda Work with member countries to provide CAB Abstracts to elected institutions free of charge Developing websites to be optimized for low-bandwidth and mobile environments Work with books providers (Book Aid Int/ Mallory) to provide lowpriced and free academic books

9 CABI Knowledge Management GARA (Global Agricultural Research Archive) - Phillippines/ Pakistan/ Malawi - Direct2Farm - In collaboration with Indian Technology Partner (VAL) - SMS and IVR locally specific agricultural knowledge R4D and DRP - Working with UK and Danish development agencies - Providing transparency and access as per IATI commitments

10 Plantwise The smallholder farmer Lives in remote area Limited transport No internet access No agricultural training Limited money for pesticides and fertilizers Limited access to advice

11 Plantwise our solution Plantwise is a unique system that delivers knowledge into the hands of smallholder farmers to help them protect their crops and increase their yields Accurate and up-to-date knowledge given to farmers Work with local partners to recruit plant doctors Provide initial and on-going high quality training Access to a knowledge bank - constantly updated - fact sheets - pest distribution data

12 Plantwise the impact Increasing income - Average $800 per family in Bolivia - $325 per family in Bangladesh Preventing losses and improving yields (9% increase in Bangladesh) Reducing costs of production ($16.71 p/ha in Bangladesh)

13 Plantwise Where are we now Proven: First clinic, Bolivia, 2002 Over 10 years scaling up >150 clinics in 11 countries Fully working prototype of a knowledge bank ~100,000 smallholder farmers and their families already helped 60 local partners 7 international partners $11 million initial funding

14 Thank You