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Five Principles for Libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers

26/09/2017

(Source: LIBER, Open Access: Five Principles for Negotiations with Publishers)In September 2017, LIBER - Europe’s leading association of research libraries - released Five Principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers.With these principles, research libraries are encouraged to make the move from paying for ...

Call for Applications for the AGORA Online Course is now Open

26/09/2017

AGORA Team is pleased to offer an online course for AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), one of the four programmes of Research4Life. This online course is provided by the Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division (DPS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (...

Take Survey to Help identify Data Management practices and related challenges within the Rice Community

26/09/2017

Dear AIMS Visitors !  Please, take a moment to answer thisQUESTIONNAIRE of the Rice Data Interoperability Working Groupof the RDA - Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD)._________________________________________________________________________________________________  The QUESTIONNAIRE will be active till 20 October, but we encourage you to answer as soon as possible ! In order to get a large panel of ...

September 2017 : AGRIS has exceeded the threshold of 9 million records !

25/09/2017

AGRIS team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes this opportunity to inform all interested parties that in September 2017 AGRIS has exceeded the threshold of 9 million records ! (9,025,192 records).AGRIS team continues to work on consolidating the AGRIS (INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND ...

CPT+10 : Ten directions to move Open Education forward

25/09/2017

(Source: CapeTownOpenEducationDeclaration, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)Cape Town Open Education Declaration 10th Anniversary: Ten Directions to Move Open Education Forward (CPT+10), - is a collaboratively produced document highlighting ten key areas where the Open Education movement can grow in the next decade. CPT+10 was officially launched on 18 ...