At the mid-point of the e-Forum on “Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies” it is time to wrap up the first week:356 people from 80...
Have you ever wondered:How many Open Access policies are there worldwide?Does mandating result in more deposits in institutional repositories?When are Open Access Policies deposited?Thanks to...
The time has come to announce our 5 micro-sites beta testers!In first place we would like to thank all the AGRIS Centers that participated in the context and warmly embraced our new service! It has...
In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive...
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 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...
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 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...
Are you interested in Linked Data and how it can be used in agriculture? Would you like to develop tools that can help researchers to discover the resources they need. The upcoming hackaton...
AGRIS partners are pleased to announce that 4,526 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) records have been included in AGRIS. This recent FAO collection covers bibliographic...