A free online archive bioRxiv was set out in 2013 to shake up the culture of the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.BioRxiv – a ...
In partnership with The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Panafrican Farmers Organization (PAFO), Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition (GODAN) has published a new discussion paper called the Data Revolution for Agriculture on how open data can empower small-scale farmers." With the emergence of low-cost, ...
AGRIS facilitates that researchers retrieve agriculture, science and technological information. Africa researchers can use AGRIS to discover literature via the platform and also enables data providers to share their records to AGRIS and increase their collections' visibility.In order to fully contribute to the global knowledge economy, African scholars need ...
OpenCon is both a conference and a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. OpenCon 2016 will be held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2016, with satellite events hosted around the world. Apply by July 11 and take the opportunity to get a scholarship! ...
(Source: ascb.org)ASAPbio is a focal point for engaging the biology community in a discussion about the role that preprints could play in communicating results in the life sciences. “The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms – such as microorganisms, plants, ...