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Safe to be Open: OpenAIRE Legal Study has been published

20/01/2014

Guibault, Lucie; Wiebe, Andreas (Eds) (2013) Safe to be Open: Study on the protection of research data and recommendation for access and usage. The full-text of the book is available  (PDF, ca. 2 MB ) under the CC BY 4.0 license. Published by University of Göttingen Press (Copies can be ordered from the ...

1st Webinar : Embedded librarianship and roles in transition

20/01/2014

Presenter: Martin Kesselman, Rutgers University, United States Date: Friday, January 24, 2014. 9 a.m. Costa Rica Time (UTC−06:00) Rationale: A group of organizations1 believes in the importance of libraries as the main channels for organizing, helping select, preserving and sharing information for development. Agricultural libraries and information centers have become a key ...

Job opening: Agro-Know is looking for a Senior Software Engineer

17/01/2014

We are building a data platform that serves the best organizations in the world. Our data platform is an end-to-end, modular solution that can transform data into meaningful services. In this platform, agricultural and biodiversity data are harvested from diverse sources and –after appropriate enrichment- they can be published through ...

Climate Change in Central America : Why Weather Data Matters

16/01/2014

Central America, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, is no stranger to climate change.  Small scale farmers from Mexico through Panama are facing challenges as weather patterns change and extreme weather events become more common.  Catholic Relief Services, CIMMYT in October 2012, entitled ‘Tortillas on the Roaster,’ discusses the ...

DuraSpace announces, DSpace 4.0-Improved Interfaces for Man and Machine , series of webinars

15/01/2014

DuraSpace and the DSpace 4 release team announces a series of webinars to community members to learn first-hand on how using the new streamlined DSpace 4  can help meet organization's digital content management and preservation goals.The following series of webinars are lined up:-   DSpace 4 Roundup  Tuesday, January 21, 11:00amET The first ...