In November 2012, Oxfam  -one of the biggest international organizations working to fight poverty-, launched a series of guidelines to help development practitioners conduct high-quality research. The "how-to" guidelines are available in the Oxfam Policy and Practice website, which offers free access to over 4,000 publications. The research guidelines cover different aspects ...

Call for Papers for the KM4Dev Journal: Open research, open data, and your development organization: Best practices in information and data management for developmentThe Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal) is a peer-reviewed community-based journal on knowledge management for development – for and by development practitioners, researchers and ...

Background: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the position of Head of Data and Information Management Unit.IITA is one of the world’s leading research partners in finding solutions for hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Its award-winning research-for-development (R4D) approach addresses the development needs of ...

CABI has just announced that CAB Thesaurus has reached 2.5 million terms. Find below the verbatim announcement as published by CABIThe 2016 edition of CAB Thesaurus – the largest source of terminology covering the applied life sciences – was published today. It provides a controlled vocabulary resource of nearly 2.5 million descriptive terms.CAB Thesaurus ...

The European Commission has released new guidelines on research data generated from Horizon2020 projects participating in the Open Research Data Pilot.BackgroundThe guidelines are intended to help the Horizon 2020 beneficiaries make their research data findable,accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), to ensure it is soundly managed.Good research data management ...