AIMS

Opening up the review process with open peer review

19/02/2016

Open review approach gives credit to reviewers for the time and effort they put into improving the quality of the manuscript and shows the community that the journal is running a proper peer review process.What is open peer review? What are the benefits and challenges? Should peer review reports ...

It’s an invaluable tool for researchers in the developing world, but do you know if your institution is registered with AGORA, or if it’s eligible to do so?

18/02/2016

As one of four programmes under the Research4Life umbrella, AGORA provides access to research in the developing world. Set up by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN, its digital library holds over 6000 key journals and 5,000 books on food, agriculture, environmental science and social sciences. This pool ...

SciDev.Net : bringing science and development together through original news and analysis

18/02/2016

SciDev.Net is the world’s leading source of reliable and authoritative news, views and analysis on information about science and technology for global development. There are lots of ways to become part of the SciDev.Net community and contribute to SciDev.Net – from commenting on articles to following SciDev....

Join our Webinar: Big Data and the 7 Societal Challenges Out-of-the-box technology for the future.

17/02/2016

As the Big Data Europe project enters its second year, we’re doing everything we can to make it as simple as possible to get acquainted with the platform which is under development, and facilitate future deployments of our platform to support your Big Data pipelines. We are therefore happy ...

Join the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development in Africa from 5-8 April, 2016!

17/02/2016

Join this event to help determine how agri-food research and innovation can best meet the world’s development needs while reflecting Sustainable Development Goals.  Pre-registration for the Conference is now open: GCARD3 Global Event.“To face the challenges ahead of them, farmers, foresters, food and bio-based industries need new knowledge ...