AIMS

More than 3,000 repositories in BASE

20/05/2014

BASE has announced that it has reached two milestones and (i)now indexes more than 60,000,000 OAI-records from (ii) more than 3,000 repositories worldwide. This figure comes as a result of 250 new repositories indexed in 2014 indicating the importance of repositories. This increase makes BASE now one of the largest academic search engines ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences issues Open Acces policy

20/05/2014

You can read the original post at: http://english.cas.cn/Ne/CASE/201405/t20140516_121037.shtml Researchers & students required to deposit in open access repositories The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will promote open access to scientific articles generated from publicly funded research, the academy announced Thursday in Beijing.  In a ...

Workshop on Integration of Heterogeneous dAta sources and onTologiEs in Life Science and Environment -CfP

14/05/2014

The AIMS community is advised that papers are accepted by the Workshop on Integration of Heterogeneous dAta sources and on onTologiEs in Life Science and Environment (WHATELSE, ICCS 2014) until the 1st of June,2014. The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer scientists from knowledge engineering and experts in ...

New Webinar@AIMS : "Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA): Helping Build the Global Research Community"

09/05/2014

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar "Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA): Helping Build the Global Research Community". The webinar will present AGORA. AGORA is about providing access to otherwise commercial scholarly content and while AGORA includes many open access materials, it in itself is ...

Survey : Data standards in the Wheat research community

07/05/2014

The Wheat Data Interoperability Working group which is backed by the Wheat Information System and endorsed by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) seeks to build a common framework to facilitate Wheat data interoperability. This is an invitation to complete a short survey (no more than 10 minutes) in order to identify ...