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Report third iMarine Board Meeting available

19/04/2013

The report of the third iMarine Board Meeting is now avalaible for download. The meeting took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome on 25 and 26 March, 2013. For a detailed description of the outcomes of the meetings, read iMarine's blog iMarine - The journey ahead. The Board meeting was followed by the ...

Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe

19/04/2013

Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE) is a project funded by the European Union. RECODE seeks to leverage existing networks, communities and projects to address challenges within the open access and data dissemination and preservation sector and produce policy recommendations for open access to research ...

Competiton Reminder! How Libraries are Making a Difference Through Research4Life Contest Deadline 27 April!

17/04/2013

Research4Life reminds you to enter the competition to recognize the role of librarians and library staff in building the capacities of Research4Life users and in impacting the overall work of their institutions. In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of one of its programmes – Access to Global Online Research ...

'CGSpace : DSpace in the CGIAR', presented at Bioversity workshop

17/04/2013

CGSpace was presented at the Bioversity workshop held in Rome and it gives an insight to the developments of CGSpace. The presentation covers technical developments to CGSpace including workflows, technologies, code quality assurance and a roadmap for future developments.CGSpace is a repository of agricultural research outputs and results produced ...

INRA seminaire on "Open Science"

15/04/2013

I am attending at the moment the INRA seminar on "Open Science" which is one of the first steps to implement the new INRA policies on opening research data. Some snapshots from the workshops are at  https://twitter.com/johanneskeizer.  The presentation I will give tomorrow is at  http://www....