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LIVIVO : the Search Portal for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Medicine, and Health

03/07/2017

(Sources: LIVIVO search portal  & LIVIVO : Vertical Search Engine for Life Sciences)The search terms in LIVIVO are automatically linguistically enriched and semantically linked by vocabularies that are specially designed and adapted for life sciences, - using MeSH - for medical sciences , UMTHES - for environmental sciences and AGROVOC - for ...

19 July : Free Webinar : Assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to Plant Genetic Resources

03/07/2017

(PEXELS under Creative Commons Zero - CC0)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors!We are pleased to invite you to attend our upcoming webinar [as part of the Webinars@AIMS] :  TOPIC: Assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to Plant Genetic Resources DATE:Wednesday,  19 July, 2017TIME: 11.00 a.m. Rome Time (CEST Conversion to ...

4 July 2017: New Authentication System for AGORA login "goes-live" online !

30/06/2017

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) team is pleased to inform you that the Research4Life programmes - including AGORA  - will receive a new authentication system on 4 July 2017! The link to access AGORA login will change with the new system.   _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________As you may already know, to access ...

Free FAO e-learning course on Communication for Rural Development

30/06/2017

Communication for Development (ComDev) is about seeking change at different levels including listening, building trust, sharing knowledge and skills, building policies, debating, and learning for sustained and meaningful change. The free FAO e-learning course  entitled "Communication for Rural Development" provides an overview of the ComDev approach that aims to address ...

Why do we need Permanent Unique Identifiers?

29/06/2017

(Source: The case for Digital Objects Identifiers (DOIs) in support of research activities, SlideShare)A persistent identifier (or permanent Identifier or handle) is one that never changes, so that your bookmarks and links don't break when a website gets updated. DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a permanent identifier used to ...