In the lead up to Open Access Week, INASP is encouraging partners and network countries to use Open Access Week to showcase the activities that universities and research institutions within developing and emerging countries are planning and doing. INASP is hosting a competition to provide small contributions of $500 (US) for 10 ...

One of the issues tackled within VOA3R is the way to represent research entities and stakeholders (such as People, Projects, Institutions and Funding Agencies) using some interoperable and commonly accepted specification or standard. In the context of VOA3R, the partners experimented with an implementation of the Common European ...

In order to provide an aggregated view on the research content coming from various collections, VOA3R is trying to ingest in a harmonised manner the metadata that various content providers use. A main obstacle in this effort is the fact that the various providers use different metadata specifications/standards (...

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine contains an interesting article on "Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository" by Chenying Li, Mingjie Han, Chongyang Hong, Yan Wang, Yanqing Xu, and Chunning Cheng at the China Agricultural University Library. Abstract Institutional Repositories (IRs) are becoming important library resources, and increasing utilization of ...

The VOA3R platform aims to provide an online social networking platform that will use metadata and semantics technology to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated service for open sharing and retrieval of research content and data. It will allow users to express their research activities using explicit models of the ...