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Towards a better scholarly communication system: publish what you pay and rethink what you are investing in
19/05/2016
In the past decades researchers, institutions and policymakers have been exploring different ways of making research available, and different ways of paying for publishing. Publish or perish? Here are some thoughts in response to this dilemma.The issue of how research is communicated in society raises questions that cut to ...
Namibian media picks up on Forum for Open Data and Science in Agriculture with slot on TV news
23/04/2016
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is facing interlocking challenges of climate change, diminishing land and water resources, harvest losses and population growth, all of which are exacerbating the food security of millions of people. So said last Monday’s Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Namibia which asked how open ...2016’s “International Year of Pulses” has put this protein-packed food group under the spotlight
01/03/2016
But did you know that on AGRIS you can access thousands of texts about lentils, chickpeas, and every pulse in between? 2016 is gearing up to be a busy year– the 68th UN General Assembly declared it the International Year of Pulses (IYP), and one of our contributions to this important ...AGORA’s database of journals, books and papers has never been fuller
15/02/2016
If you caught our blog post back in October then you`ll know that along with our colleagues at Cornell University`s Mann Library, we`ve spent a busy year adding new titles to AGORA283 new titles in the first half of 2015 alone were added, and these came from major ...28/ 09
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