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Research4Life publishers extend partnership: Free & low cost access through 2020

29/11/2012

Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Last 14 November the Research4Life partners announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Since the programme’s ...

AGRIS e-consultation survey results

22/04/2015

The AGRIS e – consultation survey took place from November 2014 to February, 12nd 2015.The purpose of the survey was to get AGRIS user feedback on various aspects of AGRIS platform, and furthermore, get AGRIS’ users to participate in the continuous development of the AGRIS in 2015 and beyond. The e-consultation focused on ...

EPT Open Access Awards for individuals in developing and transition countries

24/08/2015

The 4th Electronic Publishing Trust Award for individuals that have made a significant impact on the development of Open Access to research publications is open and the deadline for applications is fast approaching. AIMS Community members  are encouraged to apply.Full announcement here 

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 ...

The GODAN Discussion Paper is publicly available

29/05/2015

The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative has published a Discussion Paper titled "How can we improve agriculture, food and nutrition with open data?"The Discussion Paper provides basic information on open data and the impact that open data have in different contexts, such as enabling more ...

agINFRA open access recommendations for agri-food research community

20/03/2015

The agINFRA project, supported by the Agriculture Information Management Standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AIMS FAO) and the CIARD global initiative, introduces a set of recommendations applying to agri-food research community for data management, sharing and dissemination. Additionally, these recommendations aim to provide a ...

Colloque international "Libre accès et pays du Sud"

10/03/2015

En permettant le développement de nouveaux supports de diffusion, la révolution des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (NTIC) a favorisé l'émergence du mouvement du Libre Accès en Science. Son ambition est de permettre un partage rapide et équitable des données et des ...