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Towards a better scholarly communication system: publish what you pay and rethink what you are investing in

19/05/2016

In the past decades researchers, institutions and policymakers have been exploring different ways of making research available, and different ways of paying for publishing. Publish or perish? Here are some thoughts in response to this dilemma.The issue of how research is communicated in society raises questions that cut to ...

AGRIS 2.1 online

07/03/2016

AGRIS 2.1 is online! More performant, more stable, more powerful. The new AGRIS website (http://agris.fao.org) totally relies on an Apache Solr index, which avoids the necessity to connect to a triplestore to display AGRIS records metadata. Some major improvements are:AGRIS is now a multilingual system for all ...

Open Access Week Competition 2015 now open

21/08/2015

Eligible AIMS Community members in INASP countries are encouraged to applyINASP has now opened our Open Access Week Competition for 2015. The competition is open to representatives of institutions and organizations from INASP partner or network countries. This year, Open Access Week will take place from 19-25 October. INASP, in collaboration ...

AGRIS: providing access to agricultural research data exploiting open data on the web

21/08/2015

The heading of this blog is the title of a recent paper from AGRIS team published under the F1000Research. The paper reviews the latest development of the AGRIS database and focuses also on the needs of the community. AGRIS is a global public good and its vision is to ...

agINFRA EC project successfully concluded and... continuing

16/06/2015

The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed.agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability.agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and ...