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AGRIS adds 22,541 additional records and now boasts 11,934,258 total records
28/07/2020
The AGRIS team is thrilled to announce that 22,541 additional records from 16 data providers representing 11 countries have been published in the International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS). AGRIS now boasts 11,934,258 total records. In a world where the need for access and understanding of open data and data ...
Hundreds of participants, representing more than 35 countries attend AGRIS online community meeting
21/07/2020
The 2020 Annual AGRIS Community Meeting was held online from 2 to 3 July with hundreds of members of the AGRIS network in attendance, representing more than 35 countries. The virtual meeting was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the International Center for Agricultural Research ...
Call for the Least Developed Countries: register for the Research4Life online course on global access to research in health, food and agriculture, environment, innovation and law in October 2020
20/07/2020
The United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries (TBLDC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are thrilled to continue a partnership to support the delivery of online training activities for the 47 least-developed countries to enhance the access to recent scientific knowledge, and thus give ...
RDA and ‘The STM Year of Research Data’
17/07/2020
For much of its history, the scholarly publication industry (scientific journals, monographs, major reference works, and so forth), has had a distant relationship with the data that underly the research findings it publishes. Data were either directly referenced in tables or else not mentioned at all. Many disciplines, particularly those ...