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New OECD guidelines on research ethics and new forms of data

12/12/2016

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published guidelines on research ethics and new forms of data for social and economic research. The guidelines provide a set of high-level recommendations that can be used to underpin the ethical governance of research. “Research data are defined ... as information relevant ...

Join Free Webinar : FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories

11/12/2016

Monday 12 December 15.00 hours CETTuesday 13 December 10.00 hours CETHow can you attend?Click here to register to the webinar.To participate go to https://seminar.nordu.net/fairdata/ — the online meeting room will be opened 20 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the webinar.To join the webinar all you will need ...

OSF |Preprints : a comprehensive Open Source Preprints Solution

09/12/2016

The Center for Open Science (COS) has extended the capabilities of its new open source preprints service, OSF |Preprints to include branded service capabilities, and has launched three major, new branded versions. The new services, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, and engrXiv, are the first three branded versions of COS’s open source ...

The Land Portal Foundation : Call for Board Members

09/12/2016

The Land Portal was set up in 2009 as a partnership project dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing a fragmentation of information resources on land, which makes it difficult and often prohibitively expensive to draw together reliable evidence in support ...

Call for Proposals : Acting for Humanity: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Libraries

08/12/2016

Each year, the IRRT Chair's Program features speakers presenting on a specific theme related to international relations and the library. This year, the theme for the IRRT Chair's Program is: Acting for Humanity: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and LibrariesThe American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) ...