AIMS

Identifying areas demonstrating and strengthening connections between Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy

30/05/2016

The white paper  “Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment” - published by the Association of College & Research Libraries in 2013 - has launched an ongoing process  of identifying areas that would demonstrate connections between scholarly communication and information literacy  to strengthen the ...

Highlights from Open Harvest 2016 Workshop, Chania, 18-21 May

27/05/2016

Open Harvest 2016 took place between 18 and 21 May in Chania. The aim of the workshop was to define the process, and start specifying the components of a 10-year roadmap for an open, shared, distributed data infrastructure for agriculture and food. The roadmap is to cover current status, future roles and expectations, ...

The power of open data: Britain’s Open Data Institute (ODI) is catalyzing the open-access culture

27/05/2016

Sir Tim Berner-Lee’s 5 stars of open data has become a mantra in open data culture In it the ODI co-founder pinpoints five principles of open data publishing, which if everybody in the future put to use, could have significant economic, environmental and social value.Making data open so that ...

Opportunities from OpenAIRE to fund your APC-free Open Access Journal!The call for proposals will remain open until the 30th of June!

26/05/2016

Are you publishing an APC-free OA journal on a shoestring? OpenAIRE would like to offer you a funding opportunity for APC-free OA journals under the the EC FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot and EC Gold Open Access Pilot!Open Access (OA) is a global trend, with policies and practices rapidly being ...

The Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (Universität Hohenheim Stuttgart) is seeking Student Reporters for Tropentag 2016

25/05/2016

The Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF c/o Universität Hohenheim Stuttgart) is for Tropentag 2016 seeking Student Reporters in order to increase the outreach of the conference. The application is open to students affiliated to an European university with great interest in the Tropentag topic.Interested? Please ...