AIMS

Call for Chapters: Library and Information Science in the Age of MOOCs

07/03/2017

Help to spread out Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) concept with its potential in library and information science domain. The upcoming book intends to make every library and information science professionals aware with MOOC concept as a whole and how they can play worthy roles in MOOC setting by using ...

Research Data Management : Training Materials

07/03/2017

Looking for training materials on research data management? Check out the EUDAT training programme and Research data management open training materials collection curated by Laura Molloy on Zenodo.___________________________________________________________________________________________________The EUDAT collaborative data infrastructure is a European e-infrastructure of integrated data services and resources to support the full research data life ...

Between growing food and conserving forests in sub-Saharan Africa

07/03/2017

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is conducting research to better understand existing and future competition and trade-offs between food production and natural forests, and the implications for land use policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).___________________________________________________________________________________________________Research by IIED's forest and biodiversity teams reveals that there is limited scope for ...

Re-using Open Data ...: a new European Data Portal study report

06/03/2017

The report 'Re-using Open Data - a study on companies transforming Open Data into economic and societal value' (2017) is published as part of the European Data Portal project. The European Data Portal is developed by the European Commission (EC) with the support of a consortium led by Capgemini Consulting, including ...

BioSharing Registry : Connecting Data Policies, Standards & Databases

05/03/2017

BioSharing Registry: connecting data policies, standards & databases in life sciences Working Group (WG) is coming to the end of its 18 month life cycle at the 9th RDA Plenary Meeting in Barcelona (5-7 April, 2017). Join the WG meetings on 5 and 6 April, 2017. __________________________________________________________________________________________________This WG is currently preparing a recommendation package for consideration ...