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    International Symposium: Open Science in the South

    The International Symposium: Open Science in the South, Dakar 23-25 octobre 2019, organized by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and CIRAD accept registration until the 30th of September. Open science is a real lever for facilitating collaborations, conducting quality research, widely disseminating ...
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    CGIAR - Open Access & Open Data Support Pack

    The Open Access & Open Data Support Pack has been created by CGIAR to start and maintain an open support knowledge pack with documents and other resources (policies and plans, information material, brochures, templates, presentations, webinars, workflows, metadata, reports etc.) in order to assist fiftteen CGIAR research centers and their partners ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Overview of 'A KARI and KAINet Institutional Repository Development Case Study'

    This presentation illustrates the advantages of the employment of AgriDrupal and AgriOcenDSpace for the two repositories KAINet and the institutional repository of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). KAINet (Kenya Agricultural Information Network) was created in 2006 and is not only an institutional but a national repository of scientific publications with ...
  • OER Commons Green: Aggregating Best-in-Class Green Open Educational Resources

    The project 'OER Commons Green' was initiated in 2010 and has the aim to build up and support an open knowledge base for educational resource on environmental topics like climate change or pollution. The initiative is supported by the Greek research-oriented SME Agro-Know Technologies and the American ISKME (Institute for the ...