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17.05.2013
UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy
The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has announced that it is making available to the public free of charge its digital publications and data. This comes after UNESCO has adopted an Open Access Policy, becoming the first agency within the United Nations to do so. The new ...
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10.09.2015
eForum Webinar: Libraries, The Lyon Declaration, and the Road to 2030
The e-forum is an online event is a joint effort by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide a forum for institutions and individuals to learn more about the ...
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23.10.2012
Overview of the Open Access Repository Capacity Strengthening Programme for Africa (OA-RCSP)
The collaborative programme OA-RCSP supports research institutions in Africa with the establishment of Open Access repositories and thus facilitates the access and use of knowledge. It is conducted by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands, the Association of African Universities and other collaborators like the UNESCO, INASP, national consortia ...
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23.10.2012
Open Access to Agricultural Research: Developments and policies
Within the last years the awareness about scholarly communication has been raised which is important for the formulation of future policies in this area. This development can be deduced from the growing number of Open Access journals and repositories which are mostly supported by the scholar community. The Directory of ...
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07.07.2014
Revistas Científicas Online: Uso del sistema Open Journal Systems (OJS) para la publicación revistas científicas electrónicas
En la actualidad la publicación y difusión de la investigación científica en el mundo se realiza de forma rápida, y la revista científica arbitrada continúa siendo el principal medio de comunicación aceptado por la comunidad académica internacional. El uso intensivo de ...
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28.07.2014
Confederación de Repositorios de Acceso Abierto (COAR)
El webinar presentará la Confederación de Repositorios de Acceso Abierto (COAR), una asociación internacional sin fines de lucro que tiene como objetivo promover mayor visibilidad y aplicación de los resultados de la investigación a través de las redes globales de repositorios digitales de acceso abierto. ...
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22.10.2012
From Tactical to strategic thinking: picking priorities in Open Access
The talk retraced the current developments in Open Access by focusing on the two complimentary approaches - self archiving and Open Access publishing. Regarding the self archiving route, the need to engage the researchers to increase repository deposits, was emphasized. Two use cases of repository deposit strategies were mentioned, these ...
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24.10.2012
Análisis de resultados y estrategias de mejora en repositorios de libre acceso: el caso de citaREA'
CITA is the center of agricultural investigation and technology of Aragón, Spain. The team of the citaREA that is the institutional repository of CITA, has developed a methodology for the creation and optimization of the contents in their repository. They have implemented a strategy which is based on the ...
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20.03.2015
agINFRA open access recommendations for agri-food research community
The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative, introduces a set of recommendations applying to agri-food research community for data management, sharing and dissemination. Additionally, these recommendations aim to provide a ...
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20.06.2013
6th INASP Open Access Week competition
The International Network of Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has announced the 6th Open Access week 2013 competition.This will be an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire ...