AIMS

General Principles of Open Access

26/08/2013

The Principles of Open Access are now published: 1. Free knowledge from shackles of economic compulsions – adopt principle that ‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’. Implies: In essence this completes the cycle of knowledge and spirals it into growth. A scholar produces original thought in a publication, another ensures its quality ...

SCOAP3 on its way to obtain participation of all High Energy Physics journal publishers

21/08/2013

SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) foresees to obtain the participation of all High Energy Physics (HEP) journals and their publishers by the end of 2013. "In the last few weeks, Elsevier, IOPp and Springer, together with their publishing partners, have been working to arrange reductions in ...

National Repository of Open Education Resources launched in India

14/08/2013

During the National Conference on ICT in School Education in New Delhi on 13th August, 2013, a 'National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER)' was launched by Dr. M. M. Pallam Raju Minister Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India. The notable thing of the NROER is that it uses ...

Face to Face meeting of the "Agricultural Data Interest Group" at 2nd RDA Plenary Meeting

13/08/2013

A face to face meeting of the Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group (AGD IG) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place during the 2nd RDA Plenary meeting. Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013  Location: Conference venue (Mariott Hotel, Washington D.C., USA)  Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Focus on Charters ...

IFLA launches new repository at IFLA WLIC 2013

12/08/2013

IFLA will launch its new repository - IFLA library - publicly at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013 which will take place next week in Singapore. IFLA Library is using EPrints to build and host the repository and currently contains all IFLA WLIC 2013 papers, existing IFLA standards, and a ...