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PASTEUR4OA ROARMAP data visualisations

27/08/2015

Have you ever wondered:How many Open Access policies are there worldwide?Does mandating result in more deposits in institutional repositories?When are Open Access Policies deposited?Thanks to PASTEUR4OA Visualisations these questions can be answered with data from ROARMAP and other data sources.As part of the work ...

Access to ICT during training workshops, a lesson from AGORA/TEEAL workshop in Nigeria

27/08/2015

On 18 August 2015, I walked into a meeting room at the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The room was to be the venue for The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) / Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) Training-of-Trainers Workshop, 18 – 20 August 2015, which required the ...

Announcing 5 free beta testers of our new AKstem service!

27/08/2015

The time has come to announce our 5 micro-sites beta testers!In first place we would like to thank all the AGRIS Centers that participated in the context and warmly embraced our new service! It has been really difficult to choose between all of these great contestants, but only five institutions ...

Cape Town Declaration (2015)

21/08/2015

Just before the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2015, ministers and country representatives from 13 African countries met in a pre-meeting together with the IFLA president Sinikka Sipilä, the African Library Association & Institutions (AfLIA) and national librarians.The meeting was focussed on the status of African libraries and action that has ...

Open Data in Africa : A path in the right direction

19/08/2015

In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive representation of collections from all Africa data by an African institution. The platform is supported ...