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OA drive & Digital Scholarship in Africa, Botswana: Call for Papers

21/06/2012

1st National Conference organized by Botswana Library Consortium (BLC) 24-25 October 2012, Botswana (venue to be announced soon) Open Access (OA) Week is organized to raise awareness, celebrate the progress, share benefits and experiences about providing free online access to research results and their use for socio-economic development. To commemorate the ...

INASP’s 20th Anniversary Symposium takes place today

20/06/2012

INASP’s 20th Anniversary Symposium takes place today, the 20th of June, 2012. State of the art of research communication and uptake for development Drawing on the expertise of INASP partners from around the world, the Symposium will explore the state of the art of research communication and research uptake for ...

Follow the RAILS-CIARD Africa Consultation live and on Twitter

19/06/2012

Today the Regional Expert Consultation on Opening Access to Agricultural Information in Africa started. The consultation takes place in Accra, Ghana from 19-21 June, 2012 and is jointly organized by the Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), The Global Forum on Agricultural research (GFAR) and FAO. Follow the RAILS-CIARD Africa ...

GFRAS has joined the CIARD Movement

19/06/2012

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) has recently joined CIARD. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) is a partnership-based initiative to disseminate agricultural research data more efficiently and make it publicly available and accessible to all. GFRAS provides advocacy and leadership on pluralistic, demand-driven ...

The agINFRA Science Gateway is online

18/06/2012

The agINFRA Science Gateway, developed by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in the context of the EU funded agINFRA project, has been released online at http://aginfra-sg.ct.infn.it/ and has been registered as an official Service Provider for both the Chinese CARSI and the Spanish SIR ...