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Open Access Thesis and Dissertations discovery tool launched

06/05/2013

The Open Access Thesis and Dissertations (OATD.org) is a discovery tool that focuses exclusively on open accessible Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs)and was launched this April. The service indexes over 1,5 million Electronic Thesis and Dissertations from over 600 participating universities in the world. The aim of the service is ...

The Food, Agriculture and Rural Community launched at G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference

03/05/2013

The virtual Food, Agriculture and Rural Community  was launched by the Secretary for Agriculture at the G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference.This community serve as a single access point for datasets, databases, tools, apps and data for food and agricultural resources.     "The data community features a collection of more ...

KrishiKosh - An Institutional Repository under National Agricultural Research System

02/05/2013

KrishiKosh (कृषिकोष), an Institutional Repository under National Agricultural Research System (NARS) is under the process of its launch which can be accessed here. KrishiKosh is made up of two words from hindi. The word 'Krishi' means Agriculture and 'Kosh' means Theca, a case. Yes, definitely, 'KrishiKosh' is a 'Case of Agriculture ...

Open call for new collaborators - e-LIS, open repository for library and information science

01/05/2013

e-LIS, international open repository for Library and Information Science (LIS), is looking for new volunteers to collaborate in the editorial team during mid-2013 and for a two-year period. Established in 2003, e-LIS is as the largest international open repository in the field of library and information science.  e-LIS is looking for ...

G8 conference on open agricultural data successfully concluded

01/05/2013

The two days conference on open agricultural data, which was initiated by the G8 governments and hosted by USDA and the worldbank was this afternoon successfully concluded. The concluding press release is at  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4aXVC8hUc3oeEd2NE56LUpzcDA/edit and the  national action ...