(Source: @ATSIndex - - - Newsletter September 2017)The Access to Seeds Index (Amsterdam - The Netherlands, 2017) evaluates and compares seed companies according to their efforts to improve Access to Quality Seeds of improved varieties for smallholder farmers. The Index seeks primarily to identify leadership and good practices, providing an evidence ...

This webinar - - that will be provided by FOSTER (FACILITATE OPEN SCIENCE TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH) - - will show you how to connect other services as add-ons to projects on the Open Science Framework (OSF).Connecting services to your OSF projects via add-ons enables you to pull together ...

Birds of a Feather (BoF) Group Metrics and Indicators in Agricultural Sciences conducts a SURVEY to find out about how metrics and indicators are used in the agricultural sciences and create an inventory of good practices and different experiences in relevant institutions.Please take a few minutes to fill out ...

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has developed a new approach for organisations to identify and manage data ethics considerations: the Data Ethics Canvas. Data ethics is a rapidly emerging area. Increasingly, those collecting, sharing and working with data are exploring the ethics of their practices and, in some cases, being ...

(Image source: Knowledge Exchange approach towards Open Scholarship, KE, 2017 (*))Within the shift toward Open Scholarship - "here [*] intended as an inclusive synonym for Open Science, Open Research, Science 2.0 and other similar terms" - we need deeper understanding of HOW the MOTIVATIONS of different actors are affected by the interactions between ...