As part of the CIARD Movement, AIMS organized during Open Access Week 2012 a series of webinars on the theme Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible. The event has been co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD).

In total 7 webinars took place from Tuesday, October 23 until Friday, October 26. Jean-Claude Guédon and Alma Swan focussed more in general respectively on the status of Open Access in the agricultural domain and Open Access policy developments. Wouter Gerritsma talked about value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository and Enrica Porcari highlighted the experience of CGIAR. The event was closed by 3 webinars consisting each of 3 short presentations talking about respectively "Promotion of Open Access", "Search Engines for Open Access Web Resources" and "Digital Repository Development Use Cases".