open access repository

  • 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. ...
  • From Tactical to strategic thinking: picking priorities in Open Access

    The talk retraced the current developments in Open Access by focusing on the two complimentary approaches - self archiving and Open Access publishing. Regarding the self archiving route, the need to engage the researchers to increase repository deposits, was emphasized. Two use cases of repository deposit strategies were mentioned, these ...
  • 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 ...
  • LA Referencia: Estrategias de Repositorios de Acceso Abierto en América Latina.

    La Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas es una iniciativa de nueve gobiernos regionales con el apoyo de RedCLARA. Proporciona acceso abierto a la producción científica regional a través de una red federada entre los países que promueven las estrategias nacionales de repositorios ...
  • An overview of the CGSpace Repository

    Peter Ballantyne is the head of Communications and Knowledge Management at ILRI. He has been involved with CGSpace from its very beginning. The key individuals involved in running the platform are Abenet Yabowork who manages content for ILRI and supports partners, Sisay Webshet who supports technical developments and Alan Orth ...
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    OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices

    The D-Lib Magazine March/April 2014 published an article surveying metadata use in OpenDOAR repositories.Brief ReviewThe creation of metadata for research and repository content is an essential part of the scholarly communication process and is necessary for the long-term access and preservation of our digital (and digitized) heritage. In spring 2014, ...
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    COAR participates in EC project OpenAIRE2020

    COAR will be leading a "work package" as part of the European Commission’s OpenAIRE2020 project. The work will focus on aligning repository networks globally and build on our existing activities in this area. Quoting from the proposal, "Aligning networks will help avoid regional silos and support global interoperability of ...
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    New in E-LIS: Opening access to agricultural information in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia

    New in E-LIS, the paper: "Opening access to agricultural information in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia" by Justin Chisenga of the Regional Office for Africa (RAF) for FAO of the UN, presented at the XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), Nairobi (Kenya), 4-8 ...