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Role of citation, peer-review and Intellectual Property Rights discussed by 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility '

01/11/2012

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) promotes and facilitates, through a global network of countries and organizations, the mobilization, access, discovery and use of information about the occurrence of organisms over time and across the planet. GBIF recently published an interesting article in which the role of citation, peer-review and ...

Last Open Access Week @ AIMS session on Digital Repository Development Use Cases now online!

31/10/2012

During the last webinar of the Open Access week @ AIMS Richard Kedemi, Andrés Yubero and Federico Sancho presented different use cases of digital repository developments. Richard Kedemi started with a presentation of KARI and KAINet institutional repository development case studies. He was followed by Andrés Yubero from Spain ...

' Search Engines for open Access Web Resources' presentations and audio recordings now available!

31/10/2012

In the sixth webinar of the Open Access Week@AIMS on Thursday, the 25th of October 2012 Friedrich Summann, Madalina Oana Ungur and Manuel Hidalgo presented different Search Engines for open Access Web Resources. Friedrich Summann started with BASE developed by the University of Bielefeld. He was followed by Madalina Oana ...

EARTh: An Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus in the Linked Open Data cloud

31/10/2012

A recent article entitled 'EARTh: An Environmental Application Reference Thesaurus in the Linked Open Data cloud', published in the Semantic Web Journal describes how the Environment Application Reference Thesaurus (EARTh) was published as linked open data. This paper reviews the main characteristics of the EARTh thesaurus and details its semantic ...

Définition de l’open access par la commission européenne

31/10/2012

La Commission Européenne récidive avec un document de 5 pages très pédagogique, qui définit l’open access Open access can be defined as the practice of providing on-line access to scientific information that is free of charge to the reader. In the context of R&D, ...