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Making progress towards Open Access for CGIAR

The CGIAR has recently announced the progress made towards its openness agenda and reports that the draft CGIAR draft Open Access policy is now in wide circulation among its Research Centres, Research programs, donors and partners.The CGIAR Open Access Policy also plots a clear timeframe for moving the process towards open access forward.The policy is influenced by DFID, the WorldBank and...

Don't miss the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture

The G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture will take place from 29-30 April in Washington, D.C. You can now participate virtually by going to one of the following websites: USDA Live website World Bank's website Data.gov Download the program

The Development and Management of E-repositories course site is now online

The Development and Management of E-repositories course is now available online on the Ocean Teacher platform.The course addresses the expertise and resources required to establish and manage sustainable repositories and the course topics were reviewed here. The AgriOcean DSpace component The AgriOcean DSpace component covers the materials on how to install the tool, common errors experienced...

Evaluation of the VOA3R platform : a consultation is now launched

A consultation to evaluate the VOA3R platform has been launched. You are invited to fill the questionnaire to help us to improve this major VOA3R outcome. The survey  questionnaire is available: English  French The VOA3R project comes to an end and your feedback is important for evaluating the platform! More information at the VOA3R website

VocBench sandbox: Search module temporarily not functioning

Please be informed that the search module in VocBench sandbox is temporarily not functioning. We are working to solve the problem as soon as possible. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The AGROVOC/VocBench Team

Submit your paper to the "Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures"

Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference November 19-22, 2013 Aim and Scope

CIRAD confirms its support of the principle of open access to knowledge

This week CIARD informed on its website the news that the Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) has signed a partnership agreement to foster open archives. CIRAD is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues. The agreement was signed at the Académie des...