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Webinar@AIMS: OKAD & F1000Research: a very different approach to publishing agricultural research

03/06/2016

Webinar on OKAD & F1000Research: a very different approach to publishing agricultural research28th June 2016  - 16:00 Rome TimeOpen access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible ...

Wikipedia’s Year of Science 2016 helps students get to grips with science communication

03/06/2016

Students are writing Wikipedia articles instead of term papers in a bid to fill knowledge-gaps on the site and promote women in scienceLike smartphones and social media, it’s hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia. 90% of Americans turn to the web to find out information, and around 70% use it ...

The Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data. Working together towards the Global Sustainable Development Goals.

02/06/2016

The Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data  works together to achieve the Global Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The Global Partnership is committed to all sectors to have access to the right information at the right time, in the right formats, and available for the right people to make the right ...

Access for Free Leading Articles on Institutional and Subject Repositories!

01/06/2016

Routledge is pleased to offer the Library & Information Science community free access to a collection of over 50 articles covering the topic of Institutional and Subject Repositories in academic libraries. Access these articles until September 30, 2016!The world's leading academic publisher Routledge announced that it is offering more than 50 articles for free ...

Total resources on AGORA swells to 28,000

31/05/2016

Huge new input onto the platform gives researchers access to 15,000 new booksNew resources are being added to Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) all the time but this latest addition represents an enormous boost to the online collection, with 15,000 new e-books now bringing the total number of books ...