AIMS

Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey

01/02/2016

The findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data – published on PLOS ONE - demonstrate a substantial uptake of data sharing through e-infrastructures and a further need for enhancement and consolidation. 98% of respondents claimed publishing of open data to be important in their community to advance research!The ...

Can big data be used for addressing food security? The CGIAR approach

29/01/2016

By 2030, the CGIAR wants its action to result in 150 million fewer hungry people, 100 million fewer poor people – at least 50% of whom are women and 190 million ha less degraded land (source: CGIAR website). For this to happen, CGIAR has mobilized a tremendous amount of money from their donors to achieve it. ...

Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development – calling all contributors

29/01/2016

Knowledge sharing and progress go hand in hand. By building a ‘knowledge community’ experts in the field of agriculture are better able to focus on the bigger picture and challenges at large.  With that in mind, what can you share on OKAD? If you follow us on AIMS then you’...

AGRIS: Facilitating access to scientific and technical information

28/01/2016

AGRIS will be updating users at least once a month in 2016. This aim of these updates or blogs will be to share the recent news, content additions and connect AGRIS with its users and content providers. To break the ice, this inagural blog will detail basic information of what AGRIS ...

The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review : a new OA article

28/01/2016

The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative is a statement that researchers can sign. That indicates that after a future date—1 January 2017—reviewers will begin to apply certain minimal open research standards to the manuscripts they review. The Royal Society Science Policy Centre states that “good [scientific] communication is assessable communication, which ...