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OceanDocs needs your feedback

27/01/2014

We would like to invite you as a Digital Information Specialist and User to participate in the IODE's OceanDocs Survey, to provide us with feedback about your experiences when using the OceanDocs Digital Repository. We will greatly value your answers to help us to improve OceanDocs. The Survey is provided ...

RDA’s Publishing Data Interest Group proposes 4 new Working Groups

24/01/2014

The Publishing Data Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance brings together all stakeholders involved in publishing research data. Its goal is to address the implementation of workflows for publishing data and therefore help establish appropriate supporting infrastructure. A couple of days ago the Interest Group issued a proposal for ...

Google Scholar and DSpace

23/01/2014

Nearly all repository managers aim to offer a discovery and access interface for scientific research. In a recent study, @tmire examined the indexing of repositories by Google Scholar. The use of EPrints, Digital Commons and DSpace is recommended in Google's Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters. Configuration issues like the metadata fields ...

LINQ in conjunction with EIF: Call for Papers, Call for Projects extended

23/01/2014

The International conference LINQ 2014 has launched in conjunction with EIF 2014 its Call for Papers and its Call for Projects and extended the deadline to 10th of February 2014! LINQ 2014 will address innovations and quality in lifelong learning, education and training: potential points of access to this field include new learning methods ...

DOAJ is looking for volunteers to become Associate Editors

22/01/2014

DOAJ wants to recruit unpaid volunteers, with language skills, that can help to maintain the levels of quality for the journals accepted into the Directory, as well as reviewing those already in the Directory. More info can be found here.