IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research...
The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September...
Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for...
The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND): Disseminating African Food and Nutritional Information through Open...
As you may know I was appointed as Chair for Open Education and Innovation at the Open University of the Netherlands. Since April 2015 I'm very pleased to work as Associated Professor at the...
Introduction The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR),on behalf of the COAR Aligning Repository Networks Committee recently published a report entitled ''Promoting Open...
The IDS Open Knowledge and Digital Services Team is hiring 2 positions - Content Co-ordinator and Web Applications Developer to work on projects like Eldis and OKhub.org. Selected candidates are...
The CIRAD publications database, Agritrop (http://agritrop.cirad.fr/), was recently converted into an institutional open repository. With more than 90 000 references, 20 000 full-text documents...
The Somalia Water and Land Information Management Project (SWALIM) is pleased to announce the launch of their brand new website on www.faoswalim.org (for reference, the old Website is still...
Are you working with Big Data in the agri-food sector? Share the information of your research project & institution and be a part of the European map of big data in agriculture and food.The...