SPARC Europe commissioned new Business Plan Toolkit for OA Journals to support the OA journal launch. This Toolkit addresses how to describe the business project, the market context, how...
The Open Access Button team has been working on an incubator grant from the Centre for Open Science (COS) to develop Open Data Button beta, a tool to help people find the data behind papers...
GODAN is planning a 2016 Summit for its partners to advance the agenda for open data in agriculture and nutrition The Summit has one clear challenge in mind: a call to action to help the GODAN...
The findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data – published on PLOS ONE - demonstrate a substantial uptake of data sharing through e-infrastructures and a further need for...
Knowledge sharing and progress go hand in hand. By building a ‘knowledge community’ experts in the field of agriculture are better able to focus on the bigger picture and challenges at...
The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative is a statement that researchers can sign. That indicates that after a future date—1 January 2017—reviewers will begin to apply certain...
The list of funded requests keeps growing and has now reached nearly 200 publications! An online list funded titles by this FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot is being maintained here.The...
The site-specific agriculture project of the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) aimed to improve the productivity of four fruit crops in Colombia through the sharing of...
On February 19, 2016, Paris will host #HackFrancophonie, an event which will bring together participants from over eight Francophone countries and three continents. Different open data-based...
In the “New year messages” published by the IITA Bulletin, 2016 was highlighted for IITA as the year of e-research and open accessInternational Institute of Tropical...