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NISO TR-06-2017: Issues in Vocabulary Management. AGROVOC thesaurus in "Vocabulary Preservation" Section

28/09/2017

September 25, 2017 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The report ...

A Research Data Policy at Wageningen University & Research: Best Practices as a Framework

27/09/2017

(Image source: The development of RDM policy at Wageningen University & Research, Best practices as a framework, LIBER|Patras|July|2017, ppt )  This essay presents an article entitled : "The Development of a Research Data Policy at Wageningen University & Research: Best Practices as a Framework"* - published recently in the LIBER Quarterly. The ...

Five Principles for Libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers

26/09/2017

(Source: LIBER, Open Access: Five Principles for Negotiations with Publishers)In September 2017, LIBER - Europe’s leading association of research libraries - released Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers.With these principles, research libraries are encouraged to make the move from paying for ...

Call for Applications for the AGORA Online Course is now Open

26/09/2017

AGORA Team is pleased to offer an online course for AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), one of the four programmes of Research4Life. This online course is provided by the Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division (DPS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (...

Take Survey to Help identify Data Management practices and related challenges within the Rice Community

26/09/2017

Dear AIMS Visitors !  Please, take a moment to answer thisQUESTIONNAIRE of the Rice Data Interoperability Working Groupof the RDA - Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD)._________________________________________________________________________________________________  The QUESTIONNAIRE will be active till 20 October, but we encourage you to answer as soon as possible ! In order to get a large panel of ...