ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to discover and evaluate scientific information. Search among over 26 million articles and article records, filter by citation or Altmetric score, and share your expertise via comments or peer review.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ScienceOpen is an independent company (based in Berlin and Boston)  founded in 2013, to make ...

INSTRUCT  is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology providing open access to high specification, specialist infrastructure.  INSTRUCT collaborates with EUDAT to publish and manage research data. INSTRUCTS invites you to submit proposal for Bertini Award 2017 for researchers whose work is conducted within European Member states or Third countries. Deadline ...

Given the relevance of the topic to the new CODATA effort on Coordinating Data Standards among Scientific Union Working Group, in October 2016, the Wellcome Trust published a report Interoperability Standards - Digital Objects in Their Own Right.  The report focuses on the wealth of content standards - available in the ...

On 26 July 2016, the European Commission released new Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020. The Guidelines place an emphasis on FAIR  principles defined by FORCE 11 group. On 14 and 15 November 2016, Florence will host RDA National Event : FAIR Data Management. Best practices and open issues._________________________________________________________________________________________________The revised Guidelines on FAIR Data Management ...

Each year, the International Open Access Week celebrates Open Open Access as the new default in scholarship and research. This year the celebration was held October 24-30, with the theme ‘Open in Action’.  Below there is a short overview of some initiatives focused on agriculture and related domains that took ...

(Credit: Africa Agriculture Status Report 2016)Take part in Agriculture Data Survey to contribute to improved data dissemination efforts in support of the Malabo Declaration! Africa is pursuing an ambitious agricultural transformation agenda guided by the Malabo Declaration. It is important for all stakeholders to have access to the data they ...

In the past decades researchers, institutions and policymakers have been exploring different ways of making research available, and different ways of paying for publishing. Publish or perish? Here are some thoughts in response to this dilemma.The issue of how research is communicated in society raises questions that cut to ...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is facing interlocking challenges of climate change, diminishing land and water resources, harvest losses and population growth, all of which are exacerbating the food security of millions of people. So said last Monday’s Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Namibia which asked how open ...

But did you know that on AGRIS you can access thousands of texts about lentils, chickpeas, and every pulse in between? 2016 is gearing up to be a busy year– the 68th UN General Assembly declared it the International Year of Pulses (IYP), and one of our contributions to this important ...

If you caught our blog post back in October then you`ll know that along with our colleagues at Cornell University`s Mann Library, we`ve spent a busy year adding new titles to AGORA283 new titles in the first half of 2015 alone were added, and these came from major ...