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ICAR adopts Open Access policy

13/09/2013

Today (13th September 2013) the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had announced its Open Access policy on its website. The full-text of Open Access policy of the ICAR is follows: ICAR adopts Open Access Policy Each ICAR institute to setup an Open Access Institutional Repository. ICAR shall setup a central ...

AgriOcean DSpace upgrades now available

11/09/2013

Did you download the AgriOcean DSpace application after the following dates - March 2012; September 2012, and January 2013? If YES, please be advised that the respective upgrades for your installation(s) are now available in the AgriOcean DSpace downloads platform. The recent upgrade package will solve bugs and comes with additional features ...

Open Research Data on the Horizon … and beyond - RDA Europe Workshop prior to the RDA Plenary in Washington

10/09/2013

The event will be live streamed on 10 september starting at 11:00 CET The webcast available at the following link https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/rda-europe/ Workshop agenda The Research Data Alliance aims to facilitate the global research data sharing and exchange. This international effort encourages increasing interest among people who wish ...

Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions

09/09/2013

Title: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions Date: September 25, 2013 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) System requirements and costs, please visit the webinar page; on the NISO website. The webinar is organized by NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) and is part ...

Presentation highlights : DC 2013 and iPRES 2013 joint conferences

05/09/2013

The curtain comes down for the jointly organised conferences iPRES-2013 and DC-2013 currently underway in Lisbon, Portugal, with the conferences respectively fulfilling the expectations of their participants. In particular, the DC-2013 conference had paper presentations in parallel sessions, poster presentations, special presentations, doctoral symposium, and workshops (which were held in ...