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Blog PostOpen access movement in Zimbabwe: A 10 year review (2005 -2015)
IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research...
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Filling data gaps to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals
The "Harnessing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development" workshop took place on the 15th of July and aimed to address and close data gaps in official statistical systems...
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MTSR Conference Programme now available
The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September...
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COAR Launches Draft “Resource Type” Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories
Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for...
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Research4Life Training: An overview of the past year
To make the best use of the Research4Life resources, training is one of the key and most important activities that our partners and programmes are committed to offer to our users. During the year...
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Be among the first ones that will get a free micro-site for their journals!
A very hot August is almost round the corner, but Agro-Know is in full throttle working on the next release of our AKstem.com product. Our team is working on a service that will automatically set...
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Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) Pre-Meeting
The Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) prepares a pre-meeting on the 21st and 22nd of September 2015 in Paris to discuss current challenges of research data management and reflect about...