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Do Indian farmers over-value institutionally-recognized authorities relative to peer-sourced content?

06/07/2012

In India social hierarchy is important. Is this refelected in the use of information resources via mobile phones? Do users over-value institutionally-recognized authorities relative to peer-sourced content? This is the main question of the article "Power to the Peers: Authority of Source Effects for a Voice-based Agricultural Information Service in ...

Measuring your Research Impact : an Open Access toolkit

05/07/2012

The Measuring your Research Impact (MyRI) project produced an online Open Access tutorial to support bibliometrics training and awareness. It consists of the following three modules: Module 1: Introduction to bibliometrics Module 2: Track your research impact Module 3: Journal ranking and analysis You can run the tutorial on the MyRI website or ...

Focus on the Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

04/07/2012

The Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (DLTD) of the University of Sao Paulo was established in 2001, to make scholarly works produced by the university available over the internet. The repository collects research outputs from the university's Schools, Faculties and Institutes, all with a total of 34,293 documents. (20,629 being Masters Dissertations ...

INASP's 20th Anniversary Symposium : presentations available online

04/07/2012

INASP celebrated its 20th anniversary with a symposium on the 20th of June, 2012. The speakers' presentations are now available online. The symposium explored the state of the art of research communication and research uptake for development as they exist today, how the field might develop in the future and how ...

Special newsletter issue on the repository initiative VOA3R

03/07/2012

AIMS published in collaboration with the VOA3R project team a second special newsletter issue on the repository initiative VOA3R. It contains news, upcoming events and dissemination activities covering last year and a short interview with Ilse A. Rasmussen, administrator of Organic Eprints at the International Centre for Research ...