AIMS

Access Open Access journals with impact factors

11/11/2013

Are Open Access (OA) journals lower in quality than conventional journals? This is one of the main doubts researchers have. A doubt that once too often holds them back from publishing in actual OA journals. Mari Vállez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), tackles this question in a blog post ...

Implementación de una plataforma para la gestión de conocimiento en Agroecología en Ecuador

07/11/2013

De abril a junio de 2013, el equipo de AIMS ha recibido la visita de Juan José Lugo Bernal, estudiante de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (España) como parte de la Movilidad de estudiantes ERASMUS para prácticas. Durante su estancia en Roma , Juan José finalizó la tesis de ...

4th iMarine Board Meeting highlight: Presentation on application bundles

06/11/2013

The 4th iMarine Board Meeting took place in October, 16-18, 2013 at the FAO headquarters (Italy). The presentation "iMarine products and services delivery" held by Pasquale Pagano, iMarine Technical Director, is now online available. iMarine application bundles The presentation focuses on the four iMarine application Bundles listed down below, showing some ...

Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information

05/11/2013

Cousera's Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information has  just wound up but if you are interested add this excellent course to your watch list for future sessions. The course, provided by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is eight weeks long and requires about 3-4 hours of study each ...

FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors V.2

05/11/2013

The FAO/Bioversity Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors Version 2 (MCPD V.2) is an international standard, issued in 2012, to facilitate germplasm passport information exchange. It provides the descriptors necessary to describe crop species and create passports. This second version is the result of a thorough revision of the widely used publication "FAO/IPGRI ...