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Tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative

15/02/2012

The 10th anniversary of the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was celebrated yesterday, February 14, 2012, in Budapest. The meeting was convened by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and focussed on what was learnt over the past ten years and how the next ten can be navigated. Read the ...

How students can get involved in Open Access advocacy

13/02/2012

EIFL hosted on January 31, 2012 in the context of its Open Access programme a webcast with Nick Shockey, Director of Right to Research Coalition and of Student Advocacy, SPARC. Involve students more in Open Access advocacy The target audience of the webcast was students and young researchers who want to get ...

Set of "Features" for implementing a repository in Drupal

13/02/2012

The latest development in the AgriDrupal community is a set of Features that packages the essential AgriDrupal functionalities into a few modules that can be installed in any Drupal website. In Drupal, a feature is a collection of Drupal entities / functionalities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case (http://drupal....

Empowering Africa’s burgeoning population

10/02/2012

The IFLA Special Interest Group Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA/RAIA) invite proposals for presentations at its Open Session in Helsinki, Finland. Theme Empowering Africa's burgeoning population with access to demographic and development information - the world population explosion and access to the information needed to achieve the ...

Drupal7 and graph related database

10/02/2012

Couple of days ago I found Agridrupal, and it looks very promising a basis for what I hope to achieve: supported by the leading sustainability initiatives (FLO, IFOAM, UTZ, 4C Association, ISEAL, RA) I am preparing a resource center. The resource center should host an online library, forum and yellow ...