INASP celebrated its 20th anniversary with a symposium on the 20th of June, 2012. The speakers' presentations are now available online. The symposium explored the state of the art of research communication and research uptake for development as they exist today, how the field might develop in the future and how ...

AIMS published in collaboration with the VOA3R project team a second special newsletter issue on the repository initiative VOA3R. It contains news, upcoming events and dissemination activities covering last year and a short interview with Ilse A. Rasmussen, administrator of Organic Eprints at the International Centre for Research ...

At the 7th International Conference on Open repositories (OR2012) AIMS will present a poster on OpenAGRIS, entitled 'The OpenAGRIS (s)mashup: Using linked data and web services to augment AGRIS repository content'. Abstract The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently transformed its bibliographic repository, AGRIS, ...

The Open Access publisher Copernicus Publications started a collaboration with OpenAIRE with the objective of making European research results better visible. Copernicus and OpenAIRE have worked together to identify publications resulting from EC-funded projects. As a result, well over 400 publications have now been imported to the journals’ and OpenAIRE’s ...

The second beta version of the Linked Open Data-enabled Bibliographical Data (LODE-BD) Recommendations has been released and is now online available on AIMS in pdf form, please go to: aims.fao.org/lode/bd. LODE-BD aims to support the selection of appropriate encoding strategies for producing meaningful Linked Open Data (...