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Migration from "Anancy" to CGSpace completed: Open Access to 40,000 records on metadata for research output

28/10/2015

GODAN partners CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) and CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) have completed the migration of the CTA Virtual Resource Center, Anancy, to CGSpace. CGSpace is a repository that provides Open Access to metadata for research output. It receives its resources from several ...

Your help needed to improve online data on agricultural biodiversity

27/10/2015

With more than 570 million records, shared freely by hundreds of institutions worldwide, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is the biggest biodiversity database on the Internet.In 2015, the GBIF Secretariat and Bioversity International created a ‘Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Agrobiodiversity’ to improve the quality and quantity ...

2015 EPT OA Award Winners

21/10/2015

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) has co-awarded the 2015 EPT award for individuals in developing countries working for Open Access to Bianca Amaro, information coordinator at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT). The other award went to Dr Roshan Kumar Karn from Nepal.The EPT ...

SPARC Africa: capacitating Africa towards access to Open Scholarship

19/10/2015

This is a repost of Jill Classen blogIn response to the portentous need of access to scholarly content by the African research community, an additional SPARC Chapter, SPARC Africa, has been established and was launched at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Satellite meeting ...

Release of TDL Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for ETDs

19/10/2015

The Texas Digital Library has announced the release of the Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, v2.  These guidelines were authored by the TDL ETD Metadata Working Group.The  guidelines are meant to provide direction to the TDL's member institutions and other ETD practitioners on ...