The Research4Life (R4L) is delighted to announce the release of its October 2017 Newsletter ! As R4L gears up to launch GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), its 5th programme focused on the rule of law early next year (see:  the formal approval of GOALI) ...... it has been ...

[Download as a PowerPoint slide; source*]   The International Wheat Initiative (IWI) has identified easy access and interoperability of all wheat-related data as a top priority for the wheat research community (and agriculture in general), which is in line with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) data principles. Interoperability - - understood ...

(Image sources: METADATA 2020 initiative & UKSG Conference 2017) Is it possible to achieve high quality metadata at the institutional level? A new ambitious METADATA 2020 initiative's belief is that investing in richer metadata* should be the scholarly community’s top priority. Good, satisfactory, open, connected and re-usable metadata reduces mis-communication and mis-interpretation, fuels ...

The World Wide Web Consortium together with the Open Data Institute are conducting a study of practices and tooling for Web data standardisation, with financial support from Innovate UK’s Emerging and Enabling Technologies programme. The purpose of this questionnaire is to get a better understanding of what kinds of ...

Access to literature is an integral part of science and scholarly endeavors. However, there is a gap between accesses to literature and retrieving the right articles needed for the task at hand.Due to lack of information retrieval skills, most students and readers find themselves lacking the literature they need. ...