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Forum on Open Data, Open Science and Open Access to Agricultural Information, Accra, Ghana

28/06/2016

The final of Three Open Data and Open Science Forums in Africa is set to take place July 11 2016, followed by the last in a series of training workshops, July 12-13Organized by FAO in conjunction with several partners, this Forum is an opportunity to draw together senior level researchers and ...

eLife: open-access publishing of outstanding research in the life sciences and biomedicine

23/06/2016

eLife open-access scientific journal publishes outstanding research in the life sciences and biomedicine, from the most fundamental and theoretical work, through to translational, applied, and clinical research.“Exploring new ways to evaluate and publish great science is at the heart of what we do at eLife. We are particularly interested ...

OA 2020: Open Access 2020 international initiative pushing towards Open Access publishing

22/06/2016

OA 2020 international initiative – launched by the Max Planck Society in March 21, 2016 -  aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.“Open Access (OA) [Gold and Green OA] is a term used to describe a radical new dissemination model ...

Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) Competency Index is now available for review and feedback!

21/06/2016

The most current version of the Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) Competency Index is now available for review and feedback. The Competency Index for learning Linked Data is designed to help learners and instructors identify and prioritize skills for developing proficiency in Linked Data. “Understanding Linked Data standards ...

New Research Data Curation Bibliography released by Digital Scholarship

20/06/2016

Digital Scholarship released (on June 6, 2016) Version 6.0 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important.To tackle issues of long-term digital preservation and adequate knowledge representation of ...