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Open access, e-research and IITA – together in 2016!

21/01/2016

In the “New year messages” published by the IITA Bulletin, 2016 was highlighted for IITA as the year of e-research and open accessInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) – one of the research institutes under the umbrella of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR - enhances food security and improves ...

New Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe Webinars

21/01/2016

Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe is organising a series of webinars dedicated to the RDA outputs, planned to take place on the third Tuesday of each month.  The webinars provide participants with the opportunity to find out more about the RDA outputs and RDA Working or Interest Group activities and ...

Aligning European Open Access Policies with the HORIZON 2020 Open Access Policy

20/01/2016

OA policies are important to ensure increased access to scientific information. However, they are many and varied. At the global level, there are now 724 OA policies recorded in ROARMAP. Policies are often expressed in different ways and there is wide variation in the elements and requirements expressed in them. They ...

Using big data for improving food safety

19/01/2016

The issue of the identification, registration and description of big datasets for agriculture, food and environment has been heavily discussed during the last years; however, an obvious question rises: How is big data actually used in practice for addressing actual issues in the agri-food sector? An article on Wired presents ...

The Future of Knowledge Sharing in a Digital Age: Exploring Impacts and Policy Implications for Development, IDS Evidence REPORT 125

19/01/2016

This evidence REPORT from IDS looks at the possible ways (with a 15-year horizon) in which digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas, and how development practitioners and policymakers might best respond.We live in a Digital Age that gives us instant access to information at greater and ...