AIMS

ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact

25/04/2016

ICT4D Conference:  From Innovation to ImpactThis year the ICT4D Conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, May - 19, 2016. The Conference will bring together thought leaders and experienced professionals from around the world to share and explore ways of using ICT to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (...

Webinar@AIMS Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Agricultural Research

22/04/2016

Webinar on increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Agricultural ResearchThere are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. The Center for Open Science has a mission to increase the transparency, reproducibility, and inclusivity of scientific research by offering free tools and services to researchers. ...

The Future of Scholarly Publishing Channel on F1000Research: Giving Researchers Credit for their work!

22/04/2016

This channel includes articles on relevant topics around the developments in scholarly publishing. Posters, slides, data and articles submitted to this channel are published immediately, fully citable and assigned a permanent DOI after an editorial check.Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognized. ...

Creative Commons Master Certificate: Towards a Vibrant, Usable Commons. We need to talk about sharing.

21/04/2016

Creative Commons Master Certificate is going to light the global commons. Library communities will have the Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians!Creative Commons (CC) - a virtual organization with a staff of 20 based internationally in over 85 countries - is planning to build CC Master Certificate defining the full body of ...

Cooperation of FAO on EGI-ENGAGE Project: working on legal interoperability in the fishery and marine sciences

20/04/2016

In the frame of the EGI-Engage Project, the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the  FAO has been working on analysis of data sources of stakeholders in the fishery and marine sciences in terms of legal interoperability. The ongoing work on this project was presented on 17 of March 2016 at the FAO ...