openness and sharing of research information and knowledge
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 ...
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 ...
FAIR Data Management. Towards the new era of Open Science
07/11/2016
On 26 July 2016, the European Commission released new Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020. The Guidelines place an emphasis on FAIR principles defined by FORCE 11 group. On 14 and 15 November 2016, Florence will host RDA National Event : FAIR Data Management. Best practices and open issues._________________________________________________________________________________________________The revised Guidelines on FAIR Data Management ...
‘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 ...
Agriculture Data Survey: data in support of the Malabo Declaration
01/11/2016
(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 ...
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 ...