AIMS

Use and integration of controlled vocabularies (AGROVOC) in DSpace Repositories

13/11/2013

From the 11th to 16th of November the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Library is hosting a meeting with people from Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University (ARU) and Tanzania Meteorological Institute (TMA) working on the project "Strengthening documentation, communication and dissemination of information ...

BARTOC launched : A register for vocabularies

12/11/2013

Looking for a classification system, controlled vocabulary, ontology, taxonomy, thesaurus that covers the field you are working in? The University Library of Basel in Switzerland recently launched a register containing the metadata of 600 controlled and structured vocabularies in 65 languages. Its official name: the Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications (...

Open Repositories 2014 -- Call for Proposals -- Towards Repository Ecosystems

12/11/2013

​The Ninth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2014, will be held 9-13 June 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is:             Towards Repository Ecosystems Repository systems are but one part of the ecosystem in 21st century research, and ...

Access Open Access journals with impact factors

11/11/2013

Are Open Access (OA) journals lower in quality than conventional journals? This is one of the main doubts researchers have. A doubt that once too often holds them back from publishing in actual OA journals. Mari Vállez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), tackles this question in a blog post ...

4th iMarine Board Meeting highlight: Presentation on application bundles

06/11/2013

The 4th iMarine Board Meeting took place in October, 16-18, 2013 at the FAO headquarters (Italy). The presentation "iMarine products and services delivery" held by Pasquale Pagano, iMarine Technical Director, is now online available. iMarine application bundles The presentation focuses on the four iMarine application Bundles listed down below, showing some ...