open access

  • eForum Webinar: Libraries, The Lyon Declaration, and the Road to 2030

    The e-forum is an online event is a joint effort by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide a forum for institutions and individuals to learn more about the ...
  • Overview of the Open Access Repository Capacity Strengthening Programme for Africa (OA-RCSP)

    The collaborative programme OA-RCSP supports research institutions in Africa with the establishment of Open Access repositories and thus facilitates the access and use of knowledge. It is conducted by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands, the Association of African Universities and other collaborators like the UNESCO, INASP, national consortia ...
  • Open Access to Agricultural Research: Developments and policies

    Within the last years the awareness about scholarly communication has been raised which is important for the formulation of future policies in this area. This development can be deduced from the growing number of Open Access journals and repositories which are mostly supported by the scholar community. The Directory of ...
  • Value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository (WaY)

    The presentation introduced the Wageningem Yield (WaY) repository within the context of the METIS system (a university-wide research information system also used as a data entry for the repository). Through this infrastructure, the repository contents have managed to grow, for example, since 2003, 100 000 records were fed to the repository by the ...
  • Opening Access to Agriculture Research Products: the experience of CGIAR

    The presentation identified the current barriers to opening access faced by the CGIAR consortium. Despite these institutional barriers,the positive developments in the general Open Access and Open Data environment were summarised (cited examples included the growing Open government data and the shift by funders and international institutions towards open ...
  • Webinar on the F1000Research approach to Open Science publishing

    This webinar is part of the activities related to the Pathway Open Access : Repositories and Publishers, and organized by the CIARD Community.About the webinarThe Open Science journal F1000Research was launched in 2012 in order to address many of the shortcomings of conventional life science publishing, particularly those that exacerbate ...
  • An overview of EPrints : The University of Glasgow's Experience

    This webinar will provide an overview of the features of the open source EPrints repository software. It will showcase its functionality and demonstrate how it is used by institutions like the the University of Glasgow to support open access and make our research more readily available.