AIMS

AGRIS database enriched with full text articles from DOAJ

07/03/2012

The AGRIS database has recently enriched its collection of full text articles from scholarly journals on agriculture with the Agriculture and Food Science set of data from DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals):  18,864 citations with full text from 102 new journals. Keeping pace with the OA movement By providing access to ...

Symposium on Agricultural Ontology Service 2012

07/03/2012

Ontologies and semantic technologies for agricultural knowledge in practice The series of AOS workshops started in 2000, with the aim to start a discussion on how to use semantically-oriented technologies in general and ontologies in particular, to provide effective agricultural knowledge services and collaboration around the world. Standards, tools and services ...

AGRIS and VOA3R collaborate

05/03/2012

The AGRIS initiative of FAO is collaborating with VOA3R, an European Union project. Benefits of collaboration AGRIS benefits from VOA3R’s integrated open access services and academic orientation, to enlarge AGRIS’ network with new research institutions and quality content. VOA3R gains the support and sustainability that affiliation ...

Mock-up of the new AIMS homepage

02/03/2012

Welcome to the AIMS consultative group! New AIMS homepage We would like to start with presenting to you a proposal for a new AIMS homepage, please see FAO-AIMS-Homepage.jpg below. This mock-up was prepared together with our colleagues from Macaroni Bros. who are also part of this group. They will ...

Organising open access advocacy campaigns

02/03/2012

The EIFL-OA programme invites proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. EIFL particularly wishes to involve active researchers and students, research administrators and policy makers, university presses, society publishers, researchers/research groups as publishers and journalists. Application procedure Proposals should: Provide ...