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Frontiers: a community-rooted, open-access academic publisher

06/07/2016

Frontiers publishes several of the most cited Open Access journals in the world, and is today one the largest and fastest-growing open-access publishers, receives millions of monthly page views.“An analysis of Gold open-access journal performance in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) revealed that Frontiers journals generated the #1 highest number ...

FutureTDM : Reducing Barriers and Increasing Uptake of Text and Data Mining for Research Environments

05/07/2016

The partners in the FutureTDM consortium share the ambition behind the EC’s call to develop policy and legal frameworks to reduce the barriers of TDM uptake and with it, promote the awareness of TDM opportunities across Europe.“The exponential growth of data in the digital age has led to ...

BioRxiv: a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in biology

04/07/2016

A free online archive bioRxiv was set out in 2013 to shake up the culture of the life sciences.  By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.BioRxiv – a ...

Data Revolution for Agriculture: putting data to work for farmers and delivering benefits

01/07/2016

In partnership with The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Panafrican Farmers Organization (PAFO), Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition (GODAN) has published a new discussion paper called the Data Revolution for Agriculture on how open data can empower small-scale farmers." With the emergence of low-cost, ...

AGRIS – facilitating access to African agriculture, science and technology literature

30/06/2016

AGRIS facilitates that researchers retrieve agriculture, science and technological information. Africa researchers can use AGRIS to discover literature via the platform and also enables data providers to share their records to AGRIS and increase their collections' visibility.In order to fully contribute to the global knowledge economy, African scholars need ...