This year marks INASP's 20th anniversary (1992-2012). In celebration of two decades of work, INASP is hosting a Symposium entitled 'Research, Information and Development: These truths we hold to be self-evident...?'.
The Symposium will drawing upon the expertise of INASP partners from around the world, exploring state of the ...
Oxfam is best known for its anti-poverty programme and campaigning work, but the organization also produces research and policy materials from its experience across the world. To provide open access to their published research, Oxfam GB adopted the Open Repository system based on DSpace.
The Oxfam iLibrary provides a single, ...
There is an important ongoing academic protest against Elsevier, the largest publisher in the world, that is finding wide acceptance (more than 2,500 researchers have already signed).
The protest started by Tim Gowers, American mathematician awarded with a Fields Medal in 1998, on his blogwhere he said that Elsevier's policies are unsustainable ...
From Stefano:
Instead (or in addition) of the ASC search (Search Categories tab) in agris.fao.org, we may have, for example, a "Browse AGRIS Journals", allowing users to browse them alphabetically, by subjects, by country, etc.. accessing the articles (AGRIS records) from a journal "snippet", which would also display ...
The fifth anniversary of the Data Model Meetingwill take place at the British Library in London on April 26-27, 2012. The meeting will be attended by participants interested in the fit between RDA: resource description and access and the models used in other metadata communities, especially those working in the Semantic ...
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