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ADB Adopts Open Access for its Development Research

13/02/2015

Read the press release also hereMANILA, PHILIPPINES (12 February, 2015) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made all its economic and development research on Asia and the Pacific available under open access, a principle that promotes unrestricted online access to scholarly research so that it can be more widely distributed and used....

New AGORA website now online

12/02/2015

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new AGORA Web site at http://www.fao.org/agora  on 9 February 2015. The main change is the new domain, clearly expressing the close relationship of AGORA with FAO.  Also, the look and feel have been improved to make the use easier. ...

CALL for OR2015 Developer Track Submissions

12/02/2015

 February 11, 2015Open Repositories 2015 DEVELOPER TRACK June 8-11, 2015, Indianapolis, Indiana,Deadline March 13, 2015Read it online: http://bit.ly/1z7vovx Cool Tools, Daring Demos and Fab Features The OR2015 developer track presents an opportunity to share the latest developments across the technical community. We will be running informal sessions of presentations ...

Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Publishes Interoperability Roadmap

09/02/2015

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published the Interoperability Roadmap. The following brief came along with the announcement and can be read online at https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-interoperability-roadmap-published/AnnouncementThe roadmap comes as scholarly communication is undergoing fundamental changes, in particular with new requirements for open access ...

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: Researcher / Data analyst Officer. Land Portal Foundation

03/02/2015

The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, The Netherlands. A vacancy exists for Researcher/ data analyst officer will be part of the Land Portal coordination Unit and will be tasked to contribute to i) Amount and Quality of data; ii) Data Management and Organization; iii) Data ...