AIMS

RDA COVID-19 Work Group Announces Second Release of Guidelines and Recommendations

07/05/2020

The Research Data Alliance and its 10,500+ international members have the second release of the RDA COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines available. Since the first release, the RDA COVID-19 working group has seen the addition of two cross-cutting COVID-19 sub-groups focusing on Legal and Ethical aspects and Software. The seven sub-groups have ...

Research4Life’s Webinar on CABI’s agricultural information resources

05/05/2020

In 2019, the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) made available to Research4Life CAB Abstracts – an online platform with more than 11.6 million records in applied life sciences, including publications from over 120 countries in 50 languages. To learn how to use the platform and discover what else CABI has to offer, Research4...

RDA Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Online Meeting - Abstract Deadline is extended

05/05/2020

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) has received many contributions representing European projects, and are now particularly seeking additional submissions from Africa, Asia, and the Americas for the virtual meeting set for May 25-29, 2020.  Please submit your title and a very brief abstract to aims@...

May 2020 AGROVOC Thesaurus now with 37,137 concepts and 748,451 terms, in up to 38 languages

04/05/2020

The May 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,137 concepts and 748,451 terms, in up to 38 languages. The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here. Recently, ...

AGRIS adds 35,116 additional records and now boasts 11,749,285 total records.

30/04/2020

The AGRIS team is thrilled to announce that today, 35,116 additional records from 20 data providers have been published in the International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS). AGRIS now boasts 11,749,285 total records. In a world where the need for access and understanding of open data and data management ...