AIMS

Upcoming course on the Development and Management of E-Repositories

11/03/2013

The IOC project Office for IODE has announced the Development and Management of E-Repositories course  to be held on the 8th to the 12th of April 2013. This course will discuss the expertise and resources to provide the confidence required to address and manage the present and future repository agenda. The ...

Benefits of strengthening AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia highlighted in Moscow

28/06/2019

  A regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia” was held by FAO in collaboration with the LandPortal Foundation (the Netherlands) in Moscow, 27-28 June 2019, hosted by the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL). ...

Webinars! Finding AGORA resources by keyword - Literature Research with Summon

16/05/2017

  (Image credit: pixabay.com, CC0 license) We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about how to search AGORA  with Summon. Summon facilitates literature research on the AGORA portal enabling the user to search resources by keyword, filter search results, save search items and to ...

Webinar on Online Resources from the U.S. National Agricultural Library

13/04/2017

 (Image credit: Max Pixel : Creative Commons Zero - CC0)This webinar is organised as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries provided by FAO of the United Nations in collaboration with Research4Life. The webinar is open to the public as well ...

Join the Webinar! Literature Research on Nutrition - Browsing AGORA

12/04/2017

  (Image credit: Unsplash, CC0 license) We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about how AGORA can be browsed to facilitate information searching in the area of nutrition research. AGORA’s main purpose is to improve the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and ...

Nuevo Webinar@AIMS:Almetrics: El uso de indicadores alternativos en la medición del impacto de producción científica de la región.

17/10/2014

El equipo AIMS se complace en anunciar el seminario web "Almetrics: El uso de indicadores alternativos en la medición del impacto de producción científica de la región."ResumenEn los últimos cuatro años, y tras el vertiginoso crecimiento de las redes sociales que genera la llamada ...

1st Training Workshop on Agricultural Information Strategies and New Tools

01/10/2013

The Nicaraguan Network of Agricultural Information and Documentation (RENIDA), founded in 1980 after the efforts of the Nicaraguan Center for Information Technology (CENIT - FINAPRI) and in collaboration with the Inter-American Agricultural Documentation Centre of IICA, has become one of the largest networks of agricultural information in the hemisphere. The Network ...

Uganda libraries improving farmers’ lives

10/06/2013

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has shared results of three library information projects that are improving lives in farming communities in Uganda. Click the links to read about how – Kachumbala Area Cooperative Enterprise Community Library (KACE) used information and communication technology (ICT) to support farmer-to-farmer learning and develop ...

Free Webinar on OpenBiblio. Getting small and rural libraries online and into the digital age

11/11/2012

On the 3rd December EIFL-FOSS is organising a webinar looking at OpenBiblio, an open source integrated library management system of particular interest to small libraries with limited technical expertise and resources of less than 50,000 volumes OpenBiblio is based upon MARC21 record format but any compatible format records may be imported (...