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The first release of the AgroPortal - a reference ontology repository dedicated to the requirements of the agronomic/plant community. Use AgroPortal to access and share ontologies!

18/01/2016

AgroPortal is the result of a collaboration between: LIRMM, INRA, IRD, Bioversity International, CIRAD and the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO) @ Stanford Univ, in order to improve Semantics in Agriculture on the Web. Sign in to AgroPortal to submit a new Ontology or ontology-based project, provide comments on Ontologies ...

New Webinar@AIMS: Under-representation of local needs in the global south in mainstream bibliographic databases. The case of rice research.

15/01/2016

The AIMS team in cooperation is pleased to announce the webinar “Under-representation of local needs in the global south in mainstream bibliographic databases. The case of rice research”. It will present the current research on this topic of Ismael Rafols, Tommaso Ciarli and Diego Chavarro from the Polytechnic University of ...

OPEN ACCESS updates from Austria

15/01/2016

The Open Access Network Austria (OANA) has published16 Recommendations on how to shift the academic publishing system to 100% Gold Open Access until 2025.These recommendations were presented at the Berlin12 Conference and to Austrian parliamentarians.Katja Mayer has published a Policy Brief on Open Science for the ERA Portal Austria.The ...

New Online Course: "Leaders of change: helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy"

14/01/2016

The online course “Leaders of change: helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy” is starting on 28th March.Through this call, Politics & Ideas (http://www.politicsandideas.org/), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP: http://www.afidep.org/) and the International Network for ...

LERU calls to sign up the LERU Statement for the 2016 to support Open Access

11/01/2016

8,400 people and organizations already signed up to the LERU statement !Nowadays, European universities pay publishers significant parts of their university budget. Hundreds of millions of euros. Money which is not directly spent on research and education, even though it is largely taxpayers´ money. As Harvard University already denounced in 2012, many ...