AIMS

SPARC has launched an Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education

23/02/2016

Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education form a broad SPARC’s Open Agenda that is critical to accelerating the way we discover and exchange knowledge, and unlocking our potential to solve big problems and make new discoveries.SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a global coalition ...

Closing the communication gap: Ghana’s agricultural radio-shows keep farmers in the loop

22/02/2016

In 2012 an English language report came out about an initiative in Ghana to communicate with farmers via radio. That paper has just been published again, in Spanish and French, with an update on how the project’s goingHow do you reach a large audience who might not have access to ...

CfP: 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research

21/02/2016

Call for Papers MTSR’16 : 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics ResearchNovember 22-25, 2016Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italyhttp://www.mtsr-conf.org/Important Dates15th May 2016 : Submission deadline30th June 2016 : Notification of acceptance10th July 2016 : Camera-ready papers due22nd – 25th November 2016 : Conference at FAO ...

2ª Edición del Curso en línea “Introducción a la Gestión de Datos de Investigación”

19/02/2016

2ª Edición del Curso en línea “Introducción a la Gestión de Datos de Investigación” Desde 16 de Mayo a 15 de Junio se llevará a cabo la 2ª edición del Curso en línea “Introducción a la Gestión de Datos de Investigación”. Tiene como objetivo ...

Opening up the review process with open peer review

19/02/2016

Open review approach gives credit to reviewers for the time and effort they put into improving the quality of the manuscript and shows the community that the journal is running a proper peer review process.What is open peer review? What are the benefits and challenges? Should peer review reports ...