With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions.   The British Library for Development Studies The British Library for Development Studies(BLDS) has the ...

DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, took place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague from 21 through 23 September 2011.    AIMS's presence at DC-2011 The AIMS team presented the paper Thesaurus Alignment for Linked Data Publishingon the work done mapping AGROVOC to six other ...

The challenge: access to knowledge fundamental for development Access to knowledge is fundamental to education and research, the improvement of lives, and the creation of human capital upon which the development of societies depends. Libraries play a key role through the provision of high quality information resources and services. However, ...

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories(COAR) is facilitating a discussion about interoperability among Open Access repositories within the global context. To kick off this process, COAR has released a briefing paper, 'The Case for Interoperability for Open Access Repositories', an overview of interoperability and selected current issues. The paper ...

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories(COAR) was launched in October 2009 and is a not-for-profit association of repository initiatives. It aims to enhance greater visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access digital repositories. What does COAR do? Lobby for repositories, their networks and repository based ...