AIMS

New ARD information services registered on CIARD Ring

11/04/2012

Currently the CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) contains 278 services/sources and 141 providers that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD). Six new resources have been added since the end of March. To stay updated on the newly registered resources take a look at ...

Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of OA

10/04/2012

UNESCO published Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Accessto demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Dr. Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd (United Kingdom), wrote the publication. She is a leading expert in scholarly ...

WUR harvesting (April 2012)

05/04/2012

Background Data from WUR is missing in AGRIS from 2004 (last year input). The WUR harvest was achieved using the following parameters: Base URL: http://library.wur.nl/oai Date Range: Jan. 2004 – Dec.2011 Set: non specified Metadata format: agris_ap Number of records: 123,409 Full-text links: 123,409 Crosscheck of two agris ap records ...

Awards for libraries that improve economic wellbeing

04/04/2012

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has launched its first innovation award call – for libraries offering services that use ICT to improve economic wellbeing of the community. The award is the first of four EIFL-PLIP Innovation Awards for public and community libraries in developing and transition countries. EIFL-PLIP is ...

Open access to EC funded research: Who should deposit?

04/04/2012

The European Commission has two policies on Open Access in practice with the aim of ensuring that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council published Guidelines for Open Access In August 2008, the European Commission ...