The Asia Open Access (OA) Meeting:  an opportunity

The Asia OA Meeting provides an opportunity to learn about global trends, share information across Asian countries, and help with local strategies for increasing the adoption of open access & open science in participating countries as well in Bangladesh.

Participants can learn about the latest development related to the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) next generation repositories initiative and hear about the work being done in other countries in Asia and beyond. 

For more details including the Programme, please, check COAR website

Submit an ABSTRACT (before 22 February 2019) at the IGAD RDA 13th pre-meeting: 'AGRICULTURE DATA Interoperability: Opportunities and Lessons Learnt from Sharing and Re-Using Open Data'

EU Datathon 2019 - Launch (on 28 January 2019) of the Open Data competition!

2 March 2019 - international Open Data Day 2019! By making Your Voice heard, You will bring even more life to the upcoming exciting ODD events! 

Get Full-Text content via Research4Life enhanced with new Country-Specific Search in Summon!

• Discover AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology)  - a free of charge service that provides access and visibility to research information resources in agricultural and related sectors
• FAO knowledge becomes Open Access
• Use COAR Controlled Vocabularies to enhance the Interoperability across repositories and with other related systems
• Open-Access TOOLKIT 'Biodiversity Mainstreaming for Healthy; Sustainable Food Systems'

• Open Access monographs: perspectives from University Presses

• The Fair Open Access Principles

• Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards - Incentives and Rewards to engage in Open Science Activities

• Scholarly Communication, Digital Skills & Services and Research Infrastructure : LIBER Strategy (2018-2022)
• Registries for Open Data Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Policies, Journals
• Open Access Button and Unpaywall : an easy way to find Open Access versions of publications
• Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (Full Vimeo Movie under CC BY 4.0)
• A Brief History of History Responding to Open Access (The Scholarly Kitchen)
• GODAN Report Open Access & Open Data at PUSH Universities
• COAR’s response to Plan S, an ambitious plan to accelerate Open Access in Europe
• The case for 'Open Science': Do we need intellectual property law?
• Free Open Science TRAINING e-courses (FOSTER)
• The OPEN SCIENCE Training Handbook (FOSTER)
• Free Open Science MOOC : enroll & catch up with developments in Open Science across the world
• Want to take WIPO's General e-Course on Intellectual Property? Enroll here – it’s free of charge
• EDX e-course: Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World : Explore ways to apply Open Science principles to academic work - including your own. Learn how to share your research effectively and responsibly, building greater visibility and impact
• Search for Open Content with help of simple Tutorials created by OER Africa
• Discover 'Open Agriculture' : an open access journal (De Gruyter publisher)
• AAS Open Research: Open-Access publishing platform for African scientists
• Meeting the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) quality criteria in the global South
• Publish in OKAD: Open Knowledge in Agriculture Development
• Advancing the use of Earth Observation Data for critical issues relating to Land, Climate, Food and Nutrition in AFRICA
• South Africa is working towards the advancement of the OPEN SCIENCE agenda elsewhere on the continent

AIMS.FAO.ORG is looking forward towards creating awareness of the work done in Open Access, Open Data, Open Science through dialogue, capacity development, collaboration and diversity, - in this way science can be advanced much faster, addressing the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

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