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New Online Course: "Leaders of change: helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy"

14/01/2016

The online course “Leaders of change: helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy” is starting on 28th March.Through this call, Politics & Ideas (http://www.politicsandideas.org/), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP: http://www.afidep.org/) and the International Network for ...

LERU calls to sign up the LERU Statement for the 2016 to support Open Access

11/01/2016

8,400 people and organizations already signed up to the LERU statement !Nowadays, European universities pay publishers significant parts of their university budget. Hundreds of millions of euros. Money which is not directly spent on research and education, even though it is largely taxpayers´ money. As Harvard University already denounced in 2012, many ...

Are databases under-representing scientific research by developing countries?

18/12/2015

Major bibliometric databases are presenting a distorted view of the quantity and thematic breadth of scientific research originating in developing countries, a new study suggests. This under-representation in bibliometric statistics may be having an adverse effect on policy development, according to the paper from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and ...

IFLA TOOLKIT to support immediate advocacy for ACCESS to information in national development plans

17/12/2015

Following the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, IFLA launches a new TOOLKIT (now in 5 languages! English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic) to support immediate advocacy for access to information in national development plans. Take action now so that Libraries have a say! In November 2015 IFLA launched a new TOOLKIT, ...

Workshop “Establishment of the International Network of Soil Information Institutions”

16/12/2015

On 8-10 December 2015 participants from different National Soil Information Institutions gathered at FAO Headquarters to join their efforts in order to establish the First International Network of Soil Information Institutions (INSII)The main goal of the workshop Establishment of the International Network of Soil Information Institutions was to discus and ...