fostering knowledge exchange
Open Access Network: be informed, join and take action
30/11/2016
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 ...
ETDplus project : towards reliably preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
23/11/2016
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 (...
ScienceOpen : a freely accessible research network
21/11/2016
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 ...
TemaTres 2.2 : Open Source Web Tool to manage formal representations of Knowledge
16/11/2016
(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 ...
LINCOLN: a new European project for the Marine Space
11/11/2016
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 ...
Apply for access to INSTRUCT research infrastructure for Structural Biology. Manage you data with INSTRUCT and EUDAT - B2SHARE
10/11/2016
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 ...
Interoperability Standards - Digital Objects in Their Own Right. Wellcome Trust Report
08/11/2016
Given the relevance of the topic to the new CODATA effort on Coordinating Data Standards among Scientific Union Working Group, in October 2016, the Wellcome Trust published a report Interoperability Standards - Digital Objects in Their Own Right. The report focuses on the wealth of content standards - available in the ...
LIBER-DataONE survey on Research Data Services in Academic Research Libraries
04/11/2016
(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 ...
‘Open in Action’ in Agriculture & Beyond
02/11/2016
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 ...