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Knowledge is power. First impressions on e-agriculture

12/12/2016

(Image credit: E-Agriculture Strategy Guide, the FAO of the United Nations)The Regional Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) multi-stakeholders consultations on the role of ICT in agricultural research and extension towards more sustainable agri-food system took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, on 7-9 December, 2016. Participants discussed the role of ...

Join Free Webinar : FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories

11/12/2016

Monday 12 December 15.00 hours CETTuesday 13 December 10.00 hours CETHow can you attend?Click here to register to the webinar.To participate go to https://seminar.nordu.net/fairdata/ — the online meeting room will be opened 20 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the webinar.To join the webinar all you will need ...

OSF |Preprints : a comprehensive Open Source Preprints Solution

09/12/2016

The Center for Open Science (COS) has extended the capabilities of its new open source preprints service, OSF |Preprints to include branded service capabilities, and has launched three major, new branded versions. The new services, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, and engrXiv, are the first three branded versions of COS’s open source ...

The Land Portal Foundation : Call for Board Members

09/12/2016

The Land Portal was set up in 2009 as a partnership project dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing a fragmentation of information resources on land, which makes it difficult and often prohibitively expensive to draw together reliable evidence in support ...

Call for Proposals : Acting for Humanity: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Libraries

08/12/2016

Each year, the IRRT Chair's Program features speakers presenting on a specific theme related to international relations and the library. This year, the theme for the IRRT Chair's Program is: Acting for Humanity: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and LibrariesThe American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) ...