New E-LIS Governance E-LIS, not-for-profit/non-commercial project, is organised, managed and maintained by an international team of librarians, with different background. Essentially, the strong part of the repository are the 60 national editors from 44 countries carrying out the quality control of the metadata from the self-archived papers and the submission and ...

Proposal for a Pilot Project on Enhancing Global Open Access to Agricultural Research Publishing CTA and FAO agree on a common project to enforce the capacities of institutions in ACP countries for open access publishing of scientific and technical knowledge. The project should have two phases: 12 months pilot with  3 selected ...

The Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDC) web page has recently been updated. The new list of the LIFDCs stands at 70 countries, seven less than those in the 2009 LIFDC list. These are: Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco and Swaziland. All seven graduated from the list having completed the "transitional phase", ...

I don't know if a migration to Drupal 7 is on the AgriDrupal roadmap but assuming that it is something that might be desired in the future I thought I'd write down a few experience I've had playing with Drupal 7 in the past week or so. I've actually been looking at ...

The EIFL-OA programme invites proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. We particularly wish to involve scholarly and scientific researchers, universities and colleges, and university presses and society publishers. Some examples of the advocacy actions that could be implemented in partnerships ...