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Good Practices for University Open Access Policies

22/10/2012

The Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) just released a guide to good practices for universities open-access (OA) policies. This guide has been in the works for several years before its publication this October, and is expected to evolve and grow. While this guide is conceived within the context of selected ...

Open Access and Agricultural Repositories Workshop, Limassol, Cyprus, 18/10/2012

22/10/2012

A Workshop on "Open Access and Agricultural Repositories" took place in Limassol, Cyprus, on October 18th, 2012. The aim of the Workshop was to bring in touch stakeholders from Cyprus (researchers, students, practitioners etc. in the area of agriculture and agricultural research) in order to create and support a network, as ...

Have you registered to Open Access Week @ AIMS?

21/10/2012

We have good news for all of you still interested to participate in the Webinars organized by the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) community on the theme "Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible" from October 23 to 26. You can still join the webinars and system requirements visiting the Open ...

Connecting research and researchers: the ORCID initiative

19/10/2012

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID initiative (ORCID) is a registry where researchers sign-up for a unique personal identifier.These identifiers, and the relationships among them, can be linked to the researcher's output to enhance the scientific discovery process and to improve the efficiency of the scholarly communication process. ORCID ...

IOOS Vocabulary Management and Development

18/10/2012

The presentation IOOS Vocabulary Management and Development delivered at the 2012 Annual Data Management and Communications Workshop (DMAC) reviews the work done by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's (IOOS) Regional Associations and centers in building controlled vocabularies, mapping and developing ontology strategies for observed properties. Presentation highlights The existence and use ...