To improve practices and support in the area of digital preservation, the Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal RCAAP has carried out a worldwide pioneering audit (of about 26...
Since the beginning of the year 2016, the LA Referencia network has been implementing the OpenAIRE guidelines enabling open access repository networks to expose their content in a common format and...
This is a repost of Jill Classen blogIn response to the portentous need of access to scholarly content by the African research community, an additional SPARC Chapter, SPARC Africa, has been...
During the recently held First Session of the Joint IODE/IAMSLIC Group of Experts on Marine Information Management, on 4th and 5th September 2015 at Rome Italy, the group recommended setting up of...
Have you ever wondered:How many Open Access policies are there worldwide?Does mandating result in more deposits in institutional repositories?When are Open Access Policies deposited?Thanks to...
I came across this news of an ontology tool -OnToology and would like to share it with AIMS Community. The tool was created by the OnToology team comprised of Ahmad Alobaid, Daniel Garijo,...
Introduction The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR),on behalf of the COAR Aligning Repository Networks Committee recently published a report entitled ''Promoting Open...
The IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services Team is hiring 2 positions - Content Co-ordinator and Web Applications Developer to work on projects like Eldis and OKhub.org. Selected candidates are...
The "Improving Semantics in Agriculture" workshop went in full swing today at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN's HQ in Rome, Italy. Participants were asked to fill in a...
The Somalia Water and Land Information Management Project (SWALIM) is pleased to announce the launch of their brand new website on www.faoswalim.org (for reference, the old Website is still...