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8 and 20 June: LIBER / Helmholtz Webinars: Systems and Services – Adding Value For Research Data Assets

01/06/2017

LIBER’s Working Group on Scientific Information Infrastructures is collaborating with Helmholtz to run two editions of an Open Science Webinar in June. Join us to hear how research institutions in Australia are maximising the value of their research data assets and for a discussion about how to create value ...

ICSU-WDS : Trusted Data Services for Global Science

01/06/2017

ICSU-World Data System (WDS) - an Interdisciplinary Body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) created in 2008 - promotes universal and equitable access to quality-assessed scientific data, data services, products, and information.________________________________________________________________________________________________________In its Strategic Plan 2014–2018, ICSU envisions scientific data services as those assisting organizations in the capture, storage, curation, ...

Why does ORCID matter ?

31/05/2017

The ORCID system is an emerging, yet widely supported, mechanism for assigning and managing persistent and unambiguous personal identifiers for use in the scholarly attribution chain. Implementing ORCIDs in digital repositories is another step toward uniquely identifying and connecting researchers and authors with their contributions and affiliations. This enhances discovery ...

28 June: Free Webinar on "The case for Digital Objects Identifiers (DOIs) in support of research activities" !

31/05/2017

(PEXELS under Creative Commons Zero - CC0)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors!We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar (as part of the Webinars@AIMS):  The case for Digital Objects Identifiers (DOIs) in support of research activities:DATE:Wednesday,  28 June, 2017TIME: 11.00 a.m. Rome Time (CEST ...

FAOLEX : national laws, regulations and policies on food, agriculture at one click !

30/05/2017

FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date legislative and policy database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws, regulations and policies on food, agriculture and natural resources management. Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the ...