Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JIRO) developed by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), harvests metadata from institutional repositories in more than 206 Japan research...
The AgriOcean Dspace (AOD) version 1.1 came with a new function to import records in AGRIS AP, MODS, Endnote and Web of Science RIS files. It is now possible in the submission process to batch...
In a recent publication entitled Agricultural Research[1] , OA initiatives case studies at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are presented. CGIAR...
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program provides free online access to major scientific and technical journals to local, not-for-profit institutions in least-developed...
When one logs on to the homepage of OA@ICRISAT, one might not readily realize its a repository homepage, the design is very impressive and warmly welcoming. OA@ICRISAT is built on E-Prints 3...
With all the research that is now available online, why are academics still saying that they don’t have access to journals? This was the starting question of a research project initiated...
Advocating open access to promote knowledge sharing EIFL-Open Access is one of the main programmes of EIFL. Most research is published in commercial e-journals, but because of high...
The Open Access Repositories Capacity Strengthening Programme (OA-IRCSP) is a joint initiative of the Association of African Universities (AAU) headquatered in Ghana, and the Royal Tropical...
EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme(PLIP) supports libraries to implement community development projects. In May 2010 PLIP supported with a grant the ‘Agrolib-Ja’ project...
The challenge: access to knowledge fundamental for development ...