Open science is not only about making research results freely available, but also about making them understandable to and reproducible for a wider public (audience) and not only to specialised scientists. It is thus influencing strongly the research environment, especially the way research results are disseminated and communicated. Many research results remain unpublished due to lack of novelty or insufficient strength of the experimental design, which is a loss to the particular knowledge community. If the research is reproducible and the associated data are available, publication can open up new opportunities and ideas for data reuse, contributing significantly to knowledge gain. Thus, the classical way of publishing research results needs alternative approaches. This paper presents two initiatives to disseminate results from animal production research and agriculture in general. The first one is the e-platform animal open space (ANOPES), intended for research results. It opens the possibility to publish research, methodological and data papers with faster review and is already operational. The second initiative is a proof-of-concept study of the EUREKA project to create an agricultural knowledge e-platform to strengthen the agricultural knowledge and innovation system of the European Union. For ANOPES, the scope and opportunities for publication are presented. For EUREKA, the analysis of data and knowledge objects created in a multi-actor projects and their relevance to the knowledge repository are presented.
