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Connecting research and researchers: the ORCID initiative

19/10/2012

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID initiative (ORCID) is a registry where researchers sign-up for a unique personal identifier.These identifiers, and the relationships among them, can be linked to the researcher's output to enhance the scientific discovery process and to improve the efficiency of the scholarly communication process. ORCID ...

IOOS Vocabulary Management and Development

18/10/2012

The presentation IOOS Vocabulary Management and Development delivered at the 2012 Annual Data Management and Communications Workshop (DMAC) reviews the work done by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's (IOOS) Regional Associations and centers in building controlled vocabularies, mapping and developing ontology strategies for observed properties. Presentation highlights The existence and use ...

Status of the AgriOcean DSpace project

17/10/2012

The AgriOcean DSpace (AOD) team awaits with anticipation the intended DSpace 3.0 release, announced earlier this year, albeit a short time after releasing DSpace version 1.8.2. Migrating AgriOcean DSpace to DSpace 3.0 The current AOD version 1.1 is equivalent to DSpace 1.7.1(JSPUI version). Therefore the AOD partners decided to stall the migration to DSpace 1.8.2 ...

'Evidence-based Literature Searching for Librarians’ Workshop In Ethiopia

16/10/2012

The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and the Collaboration for Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa (CEBHA) organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the workshop 'Evidence-based Literature Searching for Librarians’ . Its objective was to learn medical librarians and health information specialists how to find the best available evidence for priority health issues in ...

Join free webinar "From Tactical to strategic thinking: picking priorities in Open Access"

15/10/2012

Register now for Jean-Claude Guédon's free webinar "From Tactical to strategic thinking: picking priorities in Open Access". Guédon's webinar will take place on Tuesday, October 23, from 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rome time. It is one of the seven webinars that will take place during Open Access Week @ AIMS.   Jean-Claude Gué...