IOC Workshop Report No. 244 Oostende, 14 November 2011 The fourth SCOR/IODE/MBLWHOI Library Workshop on Data Publication meeting was convened by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

  The IODE OceanTeacher programme applied its own teaching during the Training Course on Outreach and Communication Tools (7-11 November 2011) by using distance education technology: one of the lecturers, rather than physically traveling to Oostende, presented her lecture through the Internet. Students were able to interact with the lecturer by audio ...

TECA is a platform where one can find practical information on agricultural technologies and practices to help small producers in the field. The TECA knowledge base gives access to hundreds of applied and easy to replicate technologies and practices in about 80 countries. The information available in TECA is expected to ...

PopSci.com, a leading source of science and technology news, published an article on the ten most amazing databases in the world. The idea behind this top ten is to show that databases do much more than store knowledge: “They provide researchers with new ways to solve long-cold crimes, predict ...

Top level view of Open Access to scientific information The Global Open Access Portal(GOAP), aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters. The portal has ...