AIMS

Open Access Week 2012: Free webinar on Open Harvester Systems

12/10/2012

EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA are co-organizing a webinar coinciding with Open Access Week 2012.  The topic will be providing access across open access journals and open access repositories, with a focus on the free open source Open Harvester Systems (OHS) software. The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system developed ...

Help us to build the AIMS Glossary

12/10/2012

The AIMS Glossary is set-up for AIMS users coming from less technical or other working areas than pure Information Management (IM). Its objective is to shortly define in plain English 'technical' terms much used in IM and to collect resources that explain these terms more extensively without becoming too technical. ...

FAO Glossary on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture : re-launched and poll results revealed!

11/10/2012

A recent survey to establish the language preferred by the users of the FAO Glossary on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture has been announced, establishing that about 65% preferred English language.The survey results will be a useful part of research into further plans to improve language content of the glossary. ...

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 ...