research data management

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    Focus on AGRIS multilingual search

    In this article, I want to explain the AGRIS multilingual search to avoid confusion about its usage and to highlight its strength.I have to start this explanation with some words about the AGRIS default search. When a user queries the system, their query refers to metadata available in the ...
  • 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?
  • 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 ...
  • BASE – a powerful search engine for Open Access

    The search engine BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) which is a tool for searching Open Access contents and automatic classification is active since 2004 and includes 37,4 million documents from 2900 mostly academic repositories. Special features are a truncation function, a search history, sorting, a drilldown function and the cooperation of linguistic tools. ...
  • Release of AGRIS 2.0: Searching agricultural bibliographic data

    The webinar will describe both the new search functions of AGRIS 2.0 as well as its technical foundations: changes in the AGRIS architecture lead to a facilitated search and precise search results. Furthermore AGRIS 2.0 incorporates the OpenAGRIS system, so that it provides a mashup page for every specific resource with related ...
  • 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 ...
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    Report of the AIMS User Impact Survey

    IntroductionThe AIMS team initiated the AIMS User Impact Survey towards the end of last year. The survey sought to gather feedback from AIMS users’ on theAIMS platform,AIMS products and services, andThe impact of AIMS’ products and services on users.The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) new website was launched ...
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    CIARD e-Consultation 2015 open!

    CIARD announced an e-Consultation entitled CIARD e-Consulation 2015 :Consideration for future direction which opens from the 30th to the 15th of April 2015 . The consultation is open to CIARD members where they seek to discuss the further development of CIARD. While the output will shape the future of CIARD, the results however , ...