The document 'Next Generation Repositories' - which is now open for public comment until March 3, 2017 - presents 12 user stories that outline priority functionalities for repositories.  COAR welcomes your ideas and opinions. To share your comments, please use the commenting function of the website. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________COAR is pleased to announce the publication ...

Most of our data providers have noted that their data was not appearing on the AGRIS mashup pages during the period June 2016 to March 2017. Our data processing team received and acknowledged your data sent via the AGRIS Data ingestion platform .However due to circumstances beyond our control we could not ...

Through the support of the Worldwide Web Foundation, National Information Technology Agency (NITA) built the  Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) initiative with the main aim of creating an open data ecosystem in Ghana and subsequently the Ghana Open Data portal. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________The aforementioned GODI initiative (started in January 2012 as a project ...

In December 2016, JISC released Moving Open Access Implementation Forward: A Handbook for Open Access Good Practice Based on Experiences of UK Higher Education Institutions. The handbook is based on the experiences of the nine pathfinder projects. Though this resource is aimed at staff involved in supporting open access implementation in ...

The Global Survey on the Quality of MOOCs aims at improving the Quality of MOOCs. It is facilitated by the European Alliance MOOQ. The survey will run until the end of March 2017. Your participation is very important!___________________________________________________________________________________________________It is a unique first Global Survey on the Quality of Open Education ...