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Strategies and a roadmap to implement Open Access policies in the Latin American and Caribbean region

18/06/2013

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recently held a consultation with experts and policy specialists from the Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries to develop strategies and a roadmap to implement Open Access within the LAC region. The report of the consultation entitled 'Open Access to Scientific ...

Keeping your DSpace storage under control

17/06/2013

Tips on how to manage a DSpace repository storage are offered by Brum Luyten of @MIRE in a recent posting. The premise of the post is that it is worth investigating whether it is really the new and valuable repository content occupying your hard drives. In a linux installation, one ...

Alliance SIDALC libraries in a map

17/06/2013

On behalf of SIDALC, I would like to thank to all the libraries that have georeferenced their information. This exercise had the objective to raise the visibility of libraries and information centers of the SIDALC Alliance participants (each link has an access to your library's information in the directory). In ...

Journée d’étude "Les enjeux de l’Open Access pour la recherche" - Aujourd'hui

17/06/2013

Agropolis International, ADBS-LR et Doccitanist organisent une journée consacrée aux enjeux de l’Open Access pour la recherche. Cette journée se tiendra le lundi 17 juin 2013, à Montpellier, mais sera aussi retransmise en direct, en français. Cette journée d’étude est ouverte aux chercheurs, aux enseignants, aux é...

G8 Science Ministers endorse the need to increase access to publicly-funded research

17/06/2013

Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research. They have approved a statement which proposes to the G8 for consideration new areas for collaboration and agreement on global challenges, global research infrastructure, open scientific research ...