Digital Science is a leading global  technology company serving the needs of scientific research. Digital Science provides software that makes the research process simpler and more efficient so that everyone can work smart and discover more. Digital Science helps solve problems for researchers, institutions, publishers and funders._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________“We still have ...

The DENDRO platform is an open-source platform designed to help researchers describe their datasets, fully build on Linked Open Data. Whenever researchers want to publish a dataset, they can export to repositories such as CKAN, DSpace, Invenio, or EUDAT's B2SHARE. “Research data management is rapidly becoming a regular concern ...

ETDplus (2014-2017) builds on the momentum of the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project to research and build tools to promote best practices and to increase the capacity of academic libraries to reliably preserve Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________The ETDplus project* was launched in 2014 to develop research and build tools (...

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 ...

(Image credit: LIBER)The present survey on Research Data Services - carried out by a group of internationally renowned researchers in collaboration with LIBER’s Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructures Committee and DataONE - reflects answers from a representative sample of research libraries in 22 European countries.__________________________________________________________________________________________________“Research data is an essential ...

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 ...

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METADATA AND SEMANTICS RESEARCH (MTSR’16)The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research(MTSR'16) will be held at the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) in Goettingen (Germany) on November 22-25, 2016. Papers can be submitted until the 24th of June 2016 Paper Submission ...