(Source: FarmingFirst.org)Farming First coalition articulates, endorses and promotes practical, actionable programmes and activities to further sustainable agricultural development worldwide. Farming First shares best practices regarding the adoption by farmers of existing efficient services and technologies by making them more affordable, accessible and efficient in use.“There will be 1.7 ...

The Association of American University Presses released on June 8, 2016  an AAUP Handbook Best Practices in Peer Review for scholarly monographs. This Handbook is designed to help publishers promote rigorous peer-review standards and intended to offer a reference point for scholars, authors, and universities.“Peer review helps to uphold the academic ...

A group of young researchers and science administrators of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA) has published a first version of The The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century. The principles can be annotated and discussed here. “Open Science demands the highest possible transparency, accountability, ...

The submission deadline is rapidly approaching for the Presentations and Best Practice Posters & Demos tracks at DC-2016. Both presentations and posters/demos provide the opportunity for practitioners and researchers specializing in metadata design, implementation, and use to present their work as well as work in progress at the International Conference ...

Frontiers publishes several of the most cited Open Access journals in the world, and is today one the largest and fastest-growing open-access publishers, receives millions of monthly page views.“An analysis of Gold open-access journal performance in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) revealed that Frontiers journals generated the #1 highest number ...