AIMS

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower Agricultural Research Communities

28/01/2013

Building Blocks for a Data Infrastructure and Services to Empower  Agricultural Research Communities, is the title of a recent paper on the agINFRA project. agINFRA  is a European Union project (funded under the 7th Framework Programme) and aims to provide agricultural research communities with e-infrastructure and services for open data ...

LOD@AIMS Webinar on "Clarifying the meaning of your public data through the Web of Data" (French)

21/01/2013

The FAO AIMS Metadata Group of Interest is glad to announce the fourth Linked Open Data @ AIMS webinar entitled Clarifying the meaning of your public data through the Web of Data. The session will take place on 22th January 2013 - 11:00am Rome Time - and will be presented by Christophe ...

Growth of Open Access Journals in India

18/01/2013

This post is about the growth of Open Access Journals in India with more emphasis on agriculture and allied subjects. We can see that immediately after Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Indian Academy of Sciences made all its journals Open Access. To this list Medknow also added few of its ...

Registration for the IAALD World Congress 2013 is now open!

17/01/2013

Registration for the IAALD World Congress 2013 is now open! Emerging Priorities for Scientific & Agricultural Information IAALD World Congress 2013 at Cornell University is an opportunity for participants to explore, share, and discuss emerging priorities in discovery and access systems, content-management tools, and institutional or individual collaborations, in a content-rich era that ...

Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe: OpenAIRE Study

17/01/2013

Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe : OpenAIRE Study on the Development of Open Access Repository Communities in Europe is the title of a recent book authored by Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma. The book highlights the existing open access policies in Europe and provides an overview of publisher’s self ...