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Max Planck Society and Springer

19/03/2010

Springer and MPS concluded a new deal, but did not continue the Open Choice agreement. See www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm  .  Not good news

OEKCS WorkPlanning: Graphic Format

18/03/2010

Hi all, I would like to share with all of you the document attached as an exercise of reproducing in a graphic format the WorkPlan available at spreadsheets.google.com/ccc . I think that it can be useful for all of us, especially for those that must define the PEMS ...

D4Science review meeting successfully concluded

17/03/2010

Yesterday was the final review of the D4Science project  (http://www.d4science.eu)  here in Brussels. D4Science is a project to build Virtual Research Infrastructures, in which scientist can collaborate despite of different locations or disciplines.  D4Science run 2008 and 2009 with FAO participation in 2 workpackages,  Community Building ...

AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop-Outcome

12/03/2010

The AGROVOC-AgroXML Workshop was held 1-2 March 2010 in Rome. The objective of the workshop was to find a methodology for the conversion from XML to RDF and for the mappings between AgroRDF and AGROVOC .  In the handout session some experiments were carried out, using a small dataset with an automatic ...

PLoS Launches Fast PDF Access with Pubget, Making Full Text Article Content More Accessible

04/03/2010

PLoS released Pubget links across its journal sites. Now, when users are browsing thousands of reference citations on PLoS journals they will be able to get to the full text article faster than ever before. Pubget solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search ...