The two-day Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) 2012 Workshop finished yesterday in Kuching, Malaysia. The 2012 edition focused on works that address real-world problems by using semantic technologies in conjunction with any type of knowledge organization systems (KOS), for the management of agricultural information. Johannes Keizer of FAO held the presentation "AgInfra. Elements ...

Open Access Week 2012 @ AIMS 22 - 28 October 2012 Call for experiences still open!   During the Open Access Week 2012, AIMS will focus on the theme "Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible”. We will organize a webinar and highlight on our website stories on Open Access in the agricultural domain. You are ...

The LIBER e-science working group published "Ten Recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management".     The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) installed the ‘E-Science working group’ in 2010 to investigate the role libraries can and should play in the field of E-Science. The group decided to focus on ...

Springer announced at the Beijing International Book Fair that it has expanded its Open Access (OA) publishing program to include a full open access option for electronic books. This new service joins the Springer’s already existing SpringerOpen Journals, Biomed Central Journal Portfolio and Springer Open Choice programs. The announcement ...

In the article "We are all in this together", the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is looking at different library consortia cost sharing models. The author is Emma Farrow, Programme Officer in Library Development at INASP. Shared subscription costs on online journals Library consortia are collaborations ...