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AIMS team members at National Library of China and the Chinese National Library of Science and Technology

11/10/2012

During a working visit to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science in Beijing, AIMS team members Caterina Caracciolo and Johannes Keizer were invited to give presentations at the National Library of China and the Chinese National Libray of Science and Technology. The presentation at the National Library focussed on the ...

A roadmap for moving CGIAR towards Open Access: A major mile stone.

09/10/2012

The CGIAR consortium announced a roadmap towards achieving the goal of Open Access of its data and information. The CGIAR Consortium produces a wide range of data, knowledge, publications and other information products such as databases, processes and software. The purpose of this roadmap comes after CGIAR approved guidelines that ...

Webinar Programme "Open Access Week @ AIMS" online!

08/10/2012

As part of the CIARD Movement, AIMS is organizing a series of webinars on the theme "Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible" during Open Access Week 2012. The event is co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), ...

11th European NKOS Workshop at TPDL 2012: Presentations now online

08/10/2012

The 11th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, which was part of TPDL 2012, took place on 27 September 2012 in Paphos, Cyprus. Around 20 participants attended the workshop which was structured into the following three sessions: KOS driving user applications ISO 25964 Thesaurus Standard KOS as infrastructure In these sessions, very interesting presentations ...

OER Commons Green: Aggregating Best-in-Class Green Open Educational Resources

08/10/2012

  OER Commons Green: Aggregating Best-in-Class Green Open Educational Resources Madalina Ungur & Vassilis Protonotarios Agro-Know Technologies Greece Dedicated to sustainability and resource conservation, OER Commons Green was developed by The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) in collaboration with Agro-Know Technologies (Greece). Since 2010, a team of e-learning ...