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Awards for libraries that improve economic wellbeing

04/04/2012

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has launched its first innovation award call – for libraries offering services that use ICT to improve economic wellbeing of the community. The award is the first of four EIFL-PLIP Innovation Awards for public and community libraries in developing and transition countries. EIFL-PLIP is ...

Open access to EC funded research: Who should deposit?

04/04/2012

The European Commission has two policies on Open Access in practice with the aim of ensuring that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council published Guidelines for Open Access In August 2008, the European Commission ...

"Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web" hosted by the BBC

03/04/2012

The BBC hosted last wednesday, March 28, the event Libraries, Media and the Semantic Web. Journalists, archivists and software developers came together at the BBC Academy in London to hear what some of the major players in this field had to say about the concept of a semantic web. Speakers On ...

Public library initiator of change

02/04/2012

The EIFL-PLIP (Public Library Innovation Programme) published on its website a story on how the villagers of Glavinci in Central Serbia managed to obtain, with the help of their library, high speed internet for the whole village. AgroLib-Ja: free internet & online farm market The Glavinci village library is part of ...

EMBRAPA (Infoteca) data in AGRIS

30/03/2012

EMBRAPA and AGRIS Details: Metadata format: MODS (METS) Range: 2000-2012 METS XML Schema: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd More than 16,000 records are harvested and stored at \\oek019\Harvester\OLD_data\EMBRAPA - Infoteca