Did you know that you can now use a country-specific search in Summon that will help you find only accessible full-texts? Try the country-specific search when looking for research material in five Research4Life programmes! Empowered full-text search using Summon Country-specific instances Any institution (and its members) from Research4Life ...

Dear AGROVOC Friends, did you know that starting April 2017, the FAO AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus - available for re-use as a Linked Open Data under the international CC-BY IGO 3.0. license - has been updated on a monthly basis?  You are invited to contribute to expansion of the AGROVOC knowledge base (concepts/...

Open Science is about increased rigour, accountability, reproducibility for research, and it is based on the principles of inclusion, fairness, equity, and sharing. Open Science as a goal: broad adoption of good scientific practices as a fundamental and essential part of the research process.  This MOOC - LIVE via Eliademy ...

In November 2018, Springer Nature and Wellcome Trust were partnering again to stage 'Better Science through Better Data 2018' conference attended by ~200 delegates.  This event covered a number of topics about the benefits, risks, challenges and practicalities of managing and publishing research data, with a particular focus on data skills, career ...

COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability stresses that still many challenges remain with improving data (based on semantic) interoperability. Besides the necessity to use the most common standardized controlled vocabularies, metadata and indicators, the interoperability issue is also in line with the objective of striving for FAIR data, because ...