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10/04/2012
UNESCO published Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Accessto demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Dr. Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd (United Kingdom), wrote the publication. She is a leading expert in scholarly ...
05/04/2012
Background Data from WUR is missing in AGRIS from 2004 (last year input). The WUR harvest was achieved using the following parameters: Base URL: http://library.wur.nl/oai Date Range: Jan. 2004 – Dec.2011 Set: non specified Metadata format: agris_ap Number of records: 123,409 Full-text links: 123,409 Crosscheck of two agris ap records ...
04/04/2012
EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has launched its first innovation award call – for libraries offering services that use ICT to improve economic wellbeing of the community. The award is the first of four EIFL-PLIP Innovation Awards for public and community libraries in developing and transition countries. EIFL-PLIP is ...
04/04/2012
The European Commission has two policies on Open Access in practice with the aim of ensuring that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council published Guidelines for Open Access In August 2008, the European Commission ...
03/04/2012
The BBC hosted last wednesday, March 28, the event Libraries, Media and the Semantic Web. Journalists, archivists and software developers came together at the BBC Academy in London to hear what some of the major players in this field had to say about the concept of a semantic web. Speakers On ...

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