Good news for Open Access in Cote d’Ivoire. More than a dozen agricultural research institutes in Côte d'Ivoire have decided to open up access to their research results and set up a national database of research results and technologies. Improve the communication of research results to farmers The ...

VIVO Project leaders and the DuraSpace organization announced last week at the VIVO 2012 conference the intention for VIVO to join DuraSpace as an Incubator project, the first step towards establishing the VIVO project as part of a sustainable non-profit organization. DuraSpace will provide VIVO with infrastructure and guidance to continue ...

FAO hosted an e-mail conference from 4 June to 1 July 2012 on "Ensuring the full participation of family farmers in agricultural innovation systems: Key issues and case studies". Nearly 600 people subscribed and 114 people from nearly 50 different countries wrote messages in which they discussed the topic and shared case studies and lessons learned. ...

The VEST Vocabularies Registry received the following new resources: Environmental Dictionary The Environmental Dictionary (EnDic) is maintained by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). The dictionary has about 90,000 search words in different languages and provides definitions for 2,000 terms in English, Estonian and Finnish Agriculture and Forestry Ontology The Agriculture and Forestry ...

BioMed Central is an open access publisher specializing in science, technology and medicine (STM) publishing. BioMed Central recently announced the signing up of  the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco as the 10th member to the Foundation Membership. BioMed Central Foundation Membership Foundation Membership is an initiative from BioMed ...