AIMS

Publishing one's research data : A new open Scientific Data journal

16/10/2013

A new Journal called 'Scientific Data' to be launched by Nature in May 2014 has made a call for submissions. What makes this publication unique is that it is open-access, online-only publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, which aims to foster data sharing and reuse, and ultimately to accelerate the ...

This afternoon: Open webinar on the AIMS portal and community!

15/10/2013

If you want to know more about what the AIMS platform has to offer in terms of standards, tools and methodologies, and not to forget the community, please join us this afternoon at 16:00 pm Rome time (Time Converter) at the open webinar: Recommendations for Agricultural Information Management: Introducing the AIMS ...

A Survey and Analysis of the Data Requirements for Stakeholders in African Agriculture

14/10/2013

As part of DFID's contribution to the G8 initiative on Open Data for Agriculture, a broad survey of key stakeholders in sustainable African agriculture was conducted to assess current and emerging trends related to data collection, processing, and dissemination. A total of 281 stakeholders were contacted by email among 11 organizational categories. ...

AGROVOC and AGRIS services available again

14/10/2013

We are pleased to announce that our hosting partners solved all technical issues and that our services are available again: OpenAGRIS: http://agris.fao.org/openagris/ AGRIS LOD: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/agris AGRIS SERIALS: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/jad AGRIS CENTERS: http://202.45.139.84:10035/catalogs/fao/repositories/centers AGROVOC LOD: http://202.45.139.84:10035/...

SCImago Journal and Country Rank

10/10/2013

The SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) is a portal that includes the journals and country indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database.These indicators are used to access and analyse scientific domains.  Agriculture and Biological Sciences country rankings A search on the SJR portal on agricultural ...