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Beyond Access Conference 2012: Rediscovering Libraries

12/09/2012

On October 3 the Beyond Access Conference 2012 will take place in Washington DC (USA) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Theme of this one-day event is "Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries". The aim is to explore the “how” of information access, and its connection to development across ...

Alignment of standards for describing researchers and identifying them: VIVO, CERIF, CASRAI and ORCID

11/09/2012

One of the the most interesting developments around VIVO is the coordination with other international initiatives trying to set standards for both describing experts / researchers and their research activities and uniquely identifying them across systems. At VIVO 2012, Laurel Haak presented ORCID, the international, non-profit project providing a global registry of ...

IWMI submits new set of bibliographic data to AGRIS

10/09/2012

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) submitted a new set of bibliographic data to the AGRIS repository, referencing to open access publications from the IWMI Library Catalog, with relevant hyperlinks to the full-text. The data, containing information on water, land resources, irrigated agriculture, wetlands and so on, is now published ...

Open Access Week @ AIMS: Call for experiences extended to September 17

10/09/2012

The submission deadline for the Open Acces Week @ AIMS event has been extended to Monday, September 17. Send us your your experiences and good practices at [email protected]! The following Open Access specialists have already confirmed to hold a webinar during the week: Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd),  Jean Claude ...

Two interesting keynote speeches at the VIVO 2012 conference on making unseen knowledge visible and re-defining "openness"

06/09/2012

At VIVO 2012, two keynote speeches on the first and second day of the conference highlighted two important aspects of making research activities and results more accessible. Caroline Wagner’s keynote speech illustrated the networked nature of global science and highlighted some issues that are relevant also for agricultural research: the “...