AIMS

CIEPI & the AgriDrupal Community

31/12/2010

Dear AgriDrupal community members,   CIEPI is the International Centre for Research in Information Strategy and Development. With members in more than 40 countries, we aim to analyze the current situation, trends and evolution of information, information techniques, processes, management, as well as the roles of information management specialists in the XXI ...

Notes from Berlin 8 by jk

30/12/2010

public post at  http://aims.fao.org/community/oekcs-community/blogs/berlin-8-conference-2010   president of academy of science chairperson of the conference Mehlhorn from Max Planck Gesellschaft Deputy Director of CAS introduces promoting open access CAS has an enormous quantity of journals and they want to push openAccess Elsevier China present ...

Berlin 8 Conference 2010

30/12/2010

From October 25-27, I represented FAO at the Berlin 8 conference on open access publishing, More than 300 institutions have now signed the Berlin declaration. The next conference will take place in the United States to underline the truly international character. I focused in my presentation on the importance of openAccess for ...

AGROVOC updated

30/12/2010

We are pleased to announce that an updated AGROVOC version is available online. It now contains 579 994 terms in 19 languages. Search AGROVOC at: aims.fao.org/website/Search/sub   We look forward to your comments and suggestions on how to further improve AGROVOC. Best wishes for a happy and fruitful New ...

AGROVOC and the WB: comments and recommendations

23/12/2010

These comments and recommendations derive from discussions held during the workshop of LA community of users in Lima, and my work with users of WB in Iquitos and LIma.      Distributed maintenance of AGROVOC: copyrights and credits   As the WB allows for wider collaboration around AGROVOC, people ask how copyright and ...