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Open access movement in Zimbabwe: A 10 year review (2005 -2015)

10/08/2015

IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research results are rarely indexed in major international databases and as a result the Database of African Thesis and Dissertations was born to ...

Filling data gaps to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals

10/08/2015

The "Harnessing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development" workshop took place on the 15th of July and aimed to address and close data gaps in official statistical systems to support the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was organized by ONE Campaign together with the governments from the US and Mexico ...

MTSR Conference Programme now available

07/08/2015

The MTSR 2015- 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference programme is now available online. The conference agenda has 41 submissions which will be delivered on the 9th to the 11th of September 2015. The MTSR conferences aim to bring together scholars and practitioners that share a common interest in the interdisciplinary field ...

Control the way you receive news and notifications from AIMS

05/08/2015

The AIMS Editorial team would like to notify all AIMS users that  they can now control e-mail alerts coming from AIMS. All users have an opportunity to pre-select the subjects of alerts they receive from AIMS by subscribing to topic (s) they want to receive. In order to do so, ...

Presenting usages of KOS in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference"

04/08/2015

The FAO AIMS team presented usages and the power of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) in the ISKO UK biennial conference "Knowledge Organization – Making a difference" that took place on the 13th and 14th of July 2015 in London.The ISKO conference illustrated the continuing demand for knowledge organization (KO). It aimed ...