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Presentations from the Interest Group for Agricultural Development (IGAD) pre meeting and RDA P7 to be published on Open Knowledge Agricultural Data (OKAD)

08/02/2016

If you caught our last IGAD post, you’ll know that the Group is gearing up for its next pre-meeting, set to take place in Tokyo before the RDA Plenary 7 at the beginning of March  IGAD is one of many interest groups operating under the Research Data Alliance (RDA), a ...

INASP’s Journals Online project : better accessibility and visibility of research in developing countries!

08/02/2016

The Journals Online project aims to improve the accessibility and visibility of developing country research. By providing a cost-effective, secure, and highly  visible platform for online journals, along with resource guides and links to suitable technologies and hosting organizations, the Journals Online enables easy discoverability of the wide range of ...

Access to research content on AGORA made easy with Summon

05/02/2016

Up to forteen thousand journals and twenty seven thousand books in the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), tracking down the resources you need could feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Summon – AGORA’s Google-like search engine, is an instant and easy way to find ...

The Open Access Button is developing a brand new tool to include Open Data

05/02/2016

The Open Access Button team has been working on an incubator grant from the Centre for Open Science (COS) to develop Open Data Button beta, a tool to help people find the data behind papers and demand the release of new data. You could be among the first testers of ...

GODAN seeks consultant for open data, data ownership and data governance report

04/02/2016

GODAN is seeking a consultant to be the coordinating author of a 10 – 20 page think-piece report exploring issues of open data, data ownership and data governance in the context of agriculture and nutrition.Advocacy for open data is generally predicated on the idea that opening up data brings a net benefit. ...