AIMS

Symposium on Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections

11/03/2016

Scientific Collections International: Food Security Research InitiativeSymposium Prospectus, 1st mailing National Agriculture Library, Beltsville, MD: 18-20 May 2016 Like war and disease, food security has been a dominant factor in human history. Food security has fueled rapid growth in population size and its insecurity has led to the collapse of societies ...

Research4Life trains you in three of the best reference management tools

11/03/2016

Part of any successful research is pulling together the strands. That means organizing citations and documents and staying on top of new research. That`s where reference management tools come in. Mostly free to download and use, you can organize, create, connect and share work with other researchers across the ...

Trustworthy preservation of digital objects in Institutional Repositories of Portugal

10/03/2016

To improve practices and support in the area of digital preservation, the Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal RCAAP has carried out a worldwide pioneering audit (of about 26 Portuguese repositories) that shows trustworthy preservation of digital objects.The Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal (RCAAP) mission is to promote, support ...

Webinar@AIMS: Research4Life: The library that opens doors

08/03/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation with Research4Life is pleased to announce the webinar “Research4Life: the library that opens doors”. This webinar will be presented in a webinar series in English, Spanish and French. Information for the French event will be published soon. The webinar is open for librarians, ...

Repository aligning between OpenAIRE and LA Referencia: a landmark agreement

08/03/2016

Since the beginning of the year 2016, the LA Referencia network has been implementing the OpenAIRE guidelines enabling open access repository networks to expose their content in a common format and consequently to ensure more seamless integration of different open access repositories.OpenAIRE and LA Referencia are the two largest and ...