AIMS

Consultation on guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the re-use of public sector information

15/11/2013

The EU has recently updated the rules on the re-use of public sector information (PSI), in the form of the revised PSI Directive. Once fully implemented, the Directive will boost the data market in Europe by making all the generally accessible public sector information available for re-use. Developers, programmers, creative ...

Use and integration of controlled vocabularies (AGROVOC) in DSpace Repositories

13/11/2013

From the 11th to 16th of November the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Library is hosting a meeting with people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information ...

BARTOC launched : A register for vocabularies

12/11/2013

Looking for a classification system, controlled vocabulary, ontology, taxonomy, thesaurus that covers the field you are working in? The University Library of Basel in Switzerland recently launched a register containing the metadata of 600 controlled and structured vocabularies in 65 languages. Its official name: the Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications (...

Open Repositories 2014 -- Call for Proposals -- Towards Repository Ecosystems

12/11/2013

​The Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2014, will be held 9-13 June 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is:             Towards Repository Ecosystems Repository systems are but one part of the ecosystem in 21st century research, and ...

Access Open Access journals with impact factors

11/11/2013

Are Open Access (OA) journals lower in quality than conventional journals? This is one of the main doubts researchers have. A doubt that once too often holds them back from publishing in actual OA journals. Mari Vállez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), tackles this question in a blog post ...