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Research4Life enriched with over 12,000 e-books courtesy of Wiley Online Books!

13/02/2013

John Wiley and Sons announced that its 12,200 online books would be made available to developing countries through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA , ARDI and OARE.The announcement came with a commitment to further add more than 100 new books published every month. This move is set to benefit research ...

Databib: Cataloging the World's Research Data Repositories

02/07/2013

Databib is an online tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Research data has been growing lately and requires curation, collection, management, access and long-term preservation.The Databib facilities that repository managers register and describe their repositories on the platform so that users can locate ...

NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

08/02/2013

The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how “open” an item is. Currently, there is no standardised bibliographic metadata that provide information on whether ...