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    Opportunities to establish Open Source Geo Labs and courses in GIS

    Is your institution working with Geospatial resources? Do you face technical challenges in establishing a Geospatial laboratory? Are you interested in having your institution teaching GIS courses? If your response is YES to any of these questions, then the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative is happy to chat with you as they ...
  • ORCID: Connecting Research & Researchers

    The objective of this webinar is to provide a short overview about various aspects of the ORCID. How can you get or assign ORCID identifiers? Where and how is the ORCID used? Who’s behind the ORCID? What is the business model of ORCID?
  • 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 ...
  • Results of the New AGRIS Vision 2007-2012: advocating for Open Access to Research

    The AGRIS Network that exists since 1975 and provides links and metadata to scientific agricultural information supports the accessibility and exchange of Agricultural knowledge. Since 2007 AGRIS works with the Open Access principles by promoting full text entries and by introducing corresponding tools and interoperability standards.The AGRIS Network consists of more ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Fedora 4 :Introduction and Overview

    Fedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. Fedora 4, the new, revitalized version of Fedora, was released into production in November. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community driven open source project delivering a modern repository platform with ...
  • Islandora : Managing digital assets with a best-practices framework

    The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of Islandora and its solution packs for the management of digital assets. Islandora is based on Drupal, Fedoraand Solr and enables its users to work with different data types (such as image, video, and pdf) and knowledge domains (such as ...