The AGRIS database has indexed the metadata from 2,088 journal articles available at the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), an open access publisher in Switzerland of peer-reviewed, scientific open-access journals.All references contain links to the full text and AGRIS, on a regular basis, will sustain the dissemination of the new ...

The International Network of Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has announced the 6th Open Access week 2013 competition.This will be an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire ...

New in E-LIS, the paper: "Opening access to agricultural information in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia" by Justin Chisenga of the Regional Office for Africa (RAF) for FAO of the UN, presented at the XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), Nairobi (Kenya), 4-8 ...

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 ...

In a recent publication, the Institute of Developmental Studies (IDS-UK) explores the links between Open Access and Development within the traditional models of scholarly communication and potential uses of open access in the context of the developing world. Objectives  The objective of this report is three-pronged, the first is to ...

The AIMS team participated in the Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures of the 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) in Cádiz (Spain) last November 2012 and presented the paper: "Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences ...

If you have participated in the Open Access Week @ AIMS, we kindly request your feedback and evaluation to hep us to better design and adapt new future seminars to your needs. You are invited to complete the short survey at  Open Access Week @ AIMS evaluation form (English) Open Access Week @ ...