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Imma Subirats - 18 Jun 2013
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published the report, Incentives, Integration, and Mediation: Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories with a variety of successful practices for populating repositories collected from around the world.
The management boards of AGROVOC and TESEO (TEsauro SEnato per l'Organizzazione dei documenti parlamentari) met in Rome last week to compare their experience with thesaurus management in a world of open electronic data.
TESEO is a classification system maintained by the Italian Senate, to organize and retrieve legal data produced by the two chambers of the Italian Parliament, as well as...
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The AIMS Team - 18 Jun 2013
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recently held a consultation with experts and policy specialists from the Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries to develop strategies and a roadmap to implement Open Access within the LAC region.
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Thembani Malapela - 17 Jun 2013
Tips on how to manage a DSpace repository storage are offered by Brum Luyten of @MIRE in a recent posting. The premise of the post is that it is worth investigating whether it is really the new and valuable repository content occupying your hard drives.
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Manuel Hidalgo - 17 Jun 2013
On behalf of SIDALC, I would like to thank to all the libraries that have georeferenced their information. This exercise had the objective to raise the visibility of libraries and information centers of the SIDALC Alliance participants (each link has an access to your library's information in the directory).
In the near future, it will be possible to access to information by country, such as...
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The AIMS Team - 17 Jun 2013
Agropolis International, ADBS-LR et Doccitanist organisent une journée consacrée aux enjeux de l’Open Access pour la recherche. Cette journée se tiendra le lundi 17 juin 2013, à Montpellier, mais sera aussi retransmise en direct, en français.
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Imma Subirats - 17 Jun 2013
Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research.
They have approved a statement which proposes to the G8 for consideration new areas for collaboration and agreement on global challenges, global research infrastructure, open scientific research data, and increasing access to the peer-reviewed,...
