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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is facing interlocking challenges of climate change, diminishing land and water resources, harvest losses and population growth, all of which are exacerbating the food security of millions of people. So said last Monday’s Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Namibia which asked how open ...

But did you know that on AGRIS you can access thousands of texts about lentils, chickpeas, and every pulse in between? 2016 is gearing up to be a busy year– the 68th UN General Assembly declared it the International Year of Pulses (IYP), and one of our contributions to this important ...

If you caught our blog post back in October then you`ll know that along with our colleagues at Cornell University`s Mann Library, we`ve spent a busy year adding new titles to AGORA283 new titles in the first half of 2015 alone were added, and these came from major ...

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “Maximizing the impact of institutional knowledge using DSpace". This webinar will discuss how DSpace can be used as the single, canonical source for institutional outputs and how to integrate it with other services.AbstractDSpace is a free, open-source software application for ...

The agINFRA project of the European Commission (EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2) was successfully completed.agINFRA aimed at developing a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural research data, with a strong focus on achieving a higher level of interoperability.agINFRA came to an end in February 2015 and ...

On 26 March 2015, global academic publisher, CABI, announced its bibliographic platform CAB Direct has reached the milestone of 11 million records. CABI’s in-house platform, CAB Direct, hosts CAB Abstracts the leading English language bibliographic database covering the applied life sciences.Updated weekly, CAB Direct now offers over 11 million records dating back ...