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BASE indexed 50 million OAI-records

27/08/2013

BASE, a search engine for academic open access web resources, has indexed more than 50,000,000 OAI-records. The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories among which many are related to agriculture. BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. Repositories ...

General Principles of Open Access

26/08/2013

The Principles of Open Access are now published: 1. Free knowledge from shackles of economic compulsions – adopt principle that ‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’. Implies: In essence this completes the cycle of knowledge and spirals it into growth. A scholar produces original thought in a publication, another ensures its quality ...

SCOAP3 on its way to obtain participation of all High Energy Physics journal publishers

21/08/2013

SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) foresees to obtain the participation of all High Energy Physics (HEP) journals and their publishers by the end of 2013. "In the last few weeks, Elsevier, IOPp and Springer, together with their publishing partners, have been working to arrange reductions in ...

National Repository of Open Education Resources launched in India

14/08/2013

During the National Conference on ICT in School Education in New Delhi on 13th August, 2013, a 'National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER)' was launched by Dr. M. M. Pallam Raju Minister Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India. The notable thing of the NROER is that it uses ...

Face to Face meeting of the "Agricultural Data Interest Group" at 2nd RDA Plenary Meeting

13/08/2013

A face to face meeting of the Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group (AGD IG) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place during the 2nd RDA Plenary meeting. Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013  Location: Conference venue (Mariott Hotel, Washington D.C., USA)  Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Focus on Charters ...