AIMS

Oxfam launches an open repository

02/02/2012

Oxfam is best known for its anti-poverty programme and campaigning work, but the organization also produces research and policy materials from its experience across the world. To provide open access to their published research, Oxfam GB adopted the Open Repository system based on DSpace. The Oxfam iLibrary provides a single, ...

Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier

01/02/2012

There is an important ongoing academic protest against Elsevier, the largest publisher in the world, that is finding wide acceptance (more than 2,500 researchers have already signed). The protest started by Tim Gowers, American mathematician awarded with a Fields Medal in 1998, on his blogwhere he said that Elsevier's policies are unsustainable ...

Rhizomik

01/02/2012

From Stefano: Instead (or in addition) of the ASC search (Search Categories tab) in agris.fao.org, we may have, for example, a "Browse AGRIS Journals", allowing users to browse them alphabetically, by subjects, by country, etc.. accessing the articles (AGRIS records) from a journal "snippet", which would also display ...

Data Model Meeting at the British Library

01/02/2012

The fifth anniversary of the Data Model Meetingwill take place at the British Library in London on April 26-27, 2012. The meeting will be attended by participants interested in the fit between RDA: resource description and access and the models used in other metadata communities, especially those working in the Semantic ...

Summary report of AIMS e-consultation available online

31/01/2012

In December 2011 the AIMS team held a closed e-consultation to evaluate the AIMS website. The summary report "AIMS E-Consultation 2011", based on the received input, can now be downloaded from the AIMS e-consulation page. Different aspects of the AIMS website, like audience, objectives, content and technical aspects, were examined by 18 information ...