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New Indexing Service for Academic Publishers Launching at Frankfurt Book Fair

13/10/2015

The statement below is reproduced press statement from hereScienceOpen has released its open citation index with more than 10 million scientific articles and records. Publishers can join in by indexing their journal content across all research disciplines (now including the humanities and social sciences) and license types on ScienceOpen for enhanced ...

Global Panel technical brief: advocating for improved metrics and data for effective food system policies

13/10/2015

The high level initiative "Global Panel" underlines the need for quality and quantity of food data in the 2nd Technical Brief that was published in October 2015. The document states that only filled data gaps can enable a proper accessment of food systems and evidence-based policymaking.The paper addresses other decision ...

BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges” held in Paris on 22 September 2015: the main challenge is Variety

09/10/2015

The BigDataEurope workshop on “Big data for food, agriculture and forestry: opportunities and challenges” was held in Paris on 22 September 2015. It was organized by Agro-Know, FAO, GFAR and the Big Data Europe project and hosted by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).Following an intense pre-meeting of the ...

Call for Papers: IFLA Journal special issue on Research Data Services

07/10/2015

Submission Deadline: 16 May 2016Libraries and archives around the world are applying the principles of library and archival sciences to address challenges and provide new services related to research data management. Librarians are helping researchers address needs throughout the research data lifecycle, for example, by conducting assessment and outreach, consulting on ...

IFLA 2016 National Committee Fellowship Grant Announced

07/10/2015

This message is circulated as announced by IFLAThe IFLA 2016 National Committee, through generous donations from the North American library community, will offer up to 50 full fellowships to librarians from outside North America (U.S. and Canada) to attend the IFLA 2016 Congress in Columbus, Ohio.The fellowship will cover travel, accommodation, ...