On April 14 the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was presented by the European Commission in January 2012. The Regulation shall apply 2...
Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe is organising a series of webinars dedicated to the RDA outputs, planned to take place on the third Tuesday of each month. The webinars provide...
Following the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, IFLA launches a new TOOLKIT (now in 5 languages! English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic) to support immediate advocacy...
The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative,...
CIARD with support from GFAR Secretariat and FAO are organizing an E-Discussion between 20 October to 6 November 2014 for global participation on the CIARD E-discussion Forum (http://www.ciard.net)...
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), has announced the availability of a report entitled 'Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licences: Current State and Lessons Learned'...
Many institutions follow-up their commitment to openness by crafting a policy - as a guideline for institutional partners in handling open access related issues. Open Access Policies are either...
A recent article entitled 'Openness and Visibility' authored by Stephen Rudgard has been published in the ICT Update bulletin. The article retraces the concepts of open access and further...