AIMS

Innovating the Wheat Community through the Research Data Alliance services and outputs

12/07/2016

There's a Wheat Community Datathon event coming up that you'd really like to participate in. You will get acquainted with data formats, services, protocols and needs of the Wheat Community, as well as find out about the fascinating innovative ideas regarding Wheat & Agriculture. You can also present your ideas or ...

TEEAL Institutional Grants 2016

12/07/2016

ITOCA in collaboration with Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University would like to invite applications from eligible institutions for acquiring TEEAL sets.A total of 70 sets will be awarded to institutions in six African countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda).About TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (...

Farming First: A Global Coalition for Sustainable Agricultural Development

11/07/2016

 (Source: FarmingFirst.org)Farming First coalition articulates, endorses and promotes practical, actionable programmes and activities to further sustainable agricultural development worldwide. Farming First shares best practices regarding the adoption by farmers of existing efficient services and technologies by making them more affordable, accessible and efficient in use.“There will be 1.7 ...

Best Practices in Peer Review Handbook

08/07/2016

The Association of American University Presses released on June 8, 2016  an AAUP Handbook Best Practices in Peer Review for scholarly monographs. This Handbook is designed to help publishers promote rigorous peer-review standards and intended to offer a reference point for scholars, authors, and universities.“Peer review helps to uphold the academic ...

The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century

07/07/2016

A group of young researchers and science administrators of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA) has published a first version of The The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century. The principles can be annotated and discussed here. “Open Science demands the highest possible transparency, accountability, ...