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‘The Open Access Textbooks’: A model for open access books

17/12/2012

The ‘Open Access textbook model’, recently revised, is designed to develop and offer strategies to establish open access books for academic use. This model is spearheaded by the State University System of Florida  (US) with support from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE).   The specific objectives of ...

Welcome to the AIMS Consultative Group 2013

17/12/2012

Thanks a lot to you all for accepting to be part of the AIMS consultative group. The group will start to be operational in 2013, meanwhile, we would like to share with you some further information before the end of this year. The AIMS Consultative Group acts as an open channel ...

LERU Launches Statements of Open Access and Open Data

17/12/2012

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has launched two statements on the importance of Open Scholarship: ‘Open Access to Research Publications’ and ‘Open Research Data’.   LERU's Open Access to Research Publications statement encourages European Universities to embed Open Access efforts into pan university strategies and also respective universities need ...

Disponibles el audio y diapositivas del segundo seminario Linked Open Data @ AIMS

14/12/2012

Para aquellos que no pudieron asistir al seminario web en español acerca de los Datos Enlazados, Linked Data: ¿qué es y qué nos ofrece? por Daniel Vila Suero de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ya se encuentran disponibles en acceso abierto las diapositivas y el audio de la ...

Interesting article on multilingual Linked Open Data patterns

13/12/2012

It is accessible from the Semantic Web Journal the paper Multilingual Linked Open Data Patterns by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo - Department of Computer Science. University of Oviedo -, Dimitris Kontokostas and Sören Auer - Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, AKSW. The paper presents a survey of ...