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Release of TDL Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for ETDs

19/10/2015

The Texas Digital Library has announced the release of the Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, v2.  These guidelines were authored by the TDL ETD Metadata Working Group.The  guidelines are meant to provide direction to the TDL's member institutions and other ETD practitioners on ...

Data on agenda at the US Secretary of Agriculture's World Food Prize Roundtable

15/10/2015

At this week’s World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, has devoted his 2015 Roundtable Discussion to Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition. You are invited to attend in person if you are in Des Moines or to tune in to ...

New Webinar: AIMS: How to get news and updates about information management in agricultural research

14/10/2015

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “AIMS: How to get news and updates about information management in agricultural research”.This webinar will review how to best benefit from the AIMS platform capabilities and interact with other experts in the area of agricultural information management . It is addressing ...

New Indexing Service for Academic Publishers Launching at Frankfurt Book Fair

13/10/2015

The statement below is reproduced press statement from hereScienceOpen has released its open citation index with more than 10 million scientific articles and records. Publishers can join in by indexing their journal content across all research disciplines (now including the humanities and social sciences) and license types on ScienceOpen for enhanced ...

Global Panel technical brief: advocating for improved metrics and data for effective food system policies

13/10/2015

The high level initiative "Global Panel" underlines the need for quality and quantity of food data in the 2nd Technical Brief that was published in October 2015. The document states that only filled data gaps can enable a proper accessment of food systems and evidence-based policymaking.The paper addresses other decision ...