Message from third Publishers for Development conference Publishers need to coordinate support across their editorial, IT, sales, and marketing teams – and ultimately at board level – to help ensure that developing country researchers are included in the research cycle. This was the main message emerging from the third annual Publishers for ...

The 10th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition gives a focus on TECA, Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers, and in particular on its knowledge base which gives access to hundreds of applied and easy to replicate technologies and practices in about 80 countries. The ...

The IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group in association with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) invites papers for presentation at IFLA General Conference, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012.  Theme Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective Social networking is a hackneyed  phrase. It ...

The Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network (ZAR4DIN) project was launched in 2010, with the main goal of facilitating access to Institutional repositories of Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) information resources through a national AR4D portal. The project was funded by the Forum for Agricultural Research in ...

The OEKCS team at FAO with the assistance of MIMOS Berhad in Malaysia have released VocBench Version 1.3, a powerful open-source ontology editor and workflow manager.   This version consolidates a number of critical usability fixes identified during trials with an exciting new international, multi-lingual, globally-dispersed user group. This new group of ...