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    Open Access Network: be informed, join and take action

    The Open Access Network (OAN) is a transformative model of open access (OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners to support the creation and distribution of research, scholarship and affordable education.The OAN was launched in 2015 as a not-for-profit organization that ...
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    ETDplus project : towards reliably preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

    ETDplus (2014-2017) builds on the momentum of the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project to research and build tools to promote best practices and to increase the capacity of academic libraries to reliably preserve Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). _____________________________________________________________________________________________________The ETDplus project* was launched in 2014 to develop research and build tools (...
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    ScienceOpen : a freely accessible research network

    ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to discover and evaluate scientific information. Search among over 26 million articles and article records, filter by citation or Altmetric score, and share your expertise via comments or peer review.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ScienceOpen is an independent company (based in Berlin and Boston)  founded in 2013, to make ...
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    TemaTres 2.2 : Open Source Web Tool to manage formal representations of Knowledge

    (Tribunal de Contas do Distrito Federal use case: TemaTres for Visual Vocabulary) TemaTres is an open source vocabulary server to manage and exploit vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and formal representations of knowledge. New version TemaTres 2.2  was released in October 2016.People engaged in creating and managing formal representations of knowledge, or rather  ...
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    LINCOLN: a new European project for the Marine Space

    Lean Innovative Connected Vessels  (LINCOLN) EU Horizon 2020 research project will use innovative design methodologies and tools for the development of three types of completely new vessels concepts through combining real operative data at sea with lean methodology, with support of IT  customized tools enabling the acquisition and using of field ...
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    Apply for access to INSTRUCT research infrastructure for Structural Biology. Manage you data with INSTRUCT and EUDAT - B2SHARE

    INSTRUCT  is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology providing open access to high specification, specialist infrastructure.  INSTRUCT collaborates with EUDAT to publish and manage research data. INSTRUCTS invites you to submit proposal for Bertini Award 2017 for researchers whose work is conducted within European Member states or Third countries. Deadline ...
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    LIBER-DataONE survey on Research Data Services in Academic Research Libraries

    (Image credit: LIBER)The present survey on Research Data Services - carried out by a group of internationally renowned researchers in collaboration with LIBER’s Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructures Committee and DataONE - reflects answers from a representative sample of research libraries in 22 European countries.__________________________________________________________________________________________________“Research data is an essential ...
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    ‘Open in Action’ in Agriculture & Beyond

    Each year, the International Open Access Week celebrates Open Open Access as the new default in scholarship and research. This year the celebration was held October 24-30, with the theme ‘Open in Action’.  Below there is a short overview of some initiatives focused on agriculture and related domains that took ...
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    Agriculture Data Survey: data in support of the Malabo Declaration

    (Credit: Africa Agriculture Status Report 2016)Take part in Agriculture Data Survey to contribute to improved data dissemination efforts in support of the Malabo Declaration! Africa is pursuing an ambitious agricultural transformation agenda guided by the Malabo Declaration. It is important for all stakeholders to have access to the data they ...