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Thembani Malapela - 17 May 2013
The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has announced that it is making available to the public free of charge its digital publications and data. This comes after UNESCO has adopted an Open Access Policy, becoming the first agency within the United Nations to do so.
The new policy implies that anyone can freely download, translate , adapt, and distribute UNESCO...
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The AIMS Team - 16 May 2013
Today the European and international Conference on Learning Innovations and Quality (LINQ 2013) started. All keynotes, invited speeches and workshops can be followed online via LIVE STREAM!
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Jean Fairbairn - 14 May 2013
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) was awarded a WSIS Project Prize for excellence in implementation of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) outcomes to achieve an inclusive and development-oriented information society.
The award was presented by Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) during the opening ceremony of the WSIS...
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The AIMS Team - 14 May 2013
The AIMS team is very pleased to invite you to participate in our User Survey 2013. We look forward to your feedback on your interactions with the AIMS platform and input regarding i) published content, ii) available services, iii) subscription to groups of interest and iv) the overall website design.
Your sincere responses will help us improve the AIMS platform, which seeks to maintain a leading...
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Armando Stellato - 13 May 2013
On Monday 13 and Thursday 16 May, the 1st plenary meeting of the SemaGrow project will be held in Rome at the University of Tor Vergata. SemaGrow envisages to develop the scalable, efficient, and robust data services needed to take full advantage of the data-intensive and inter-disciplinary Science of 2020 and to re-shape the way that data analysis techniques are applied to the heterogeneous data...
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Jean Fairbairn - 13 May 2013
EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) is proud to announce the winners of their fourth Innovation Award – for library services that contribute to open government and e-government services.
Congratulations to three public libraries:
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Sridhar Gutam - 13 May 2013
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had made its two flagship Journals Open Access few years back. This made the other scholarly reseach journals published by various societies in ICAR to follow the course and transformed their journals as Open Access Journals.
Now the ICAR is in the process of formulating an Open Access Policy for all its constituent establishments for opening up...
