AIMS

Course "Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives"

18/01/2012

The Central European University's summer school (CEU SUN) announces the course "Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda", July 2 - 6, Budapest, Hungary. Brief course description This course is intended to serve as a bridge between archivists, curators, researchers, legal experts and policymakers ...

Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries

17/01/2012

On the 14th of February the conference "The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries" will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania Goal The main goal of the conference is to explain to the wide academic community how the latest technologies have been changing their profile in the ...

Integration of Data & Publications

17/01/2012

The Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) project has delivered a report to the European Commission on Integration of Data & Publications. This report examines the impact that data sharing is having on scholarly communications and outlines the barriers to this and the opportunties this presents for 3 stakeholder groups. This report seeks ...

Islandora 11.3.0 released

13/01/2012

All available modules can be downloaded from http://islandora.ca/download, or test drive the release at http://sandbox.islandora.ca. A guide to this release is available at http://islandora.ca/11-3-guide. The guide introduces changes and new features in this version, including improvements to the batch ingest ...

AgriOcean DSpace in INASP Newsletter

13/01/2012

The AgriOcean DSpace team of AIMS published in the latest INASP Newsletter (winter 2011) the following article: S. Dister, M. Goovaerts, J. Keizer, D. Slipetskyy, I. Subirats (2011). AgriOcean DSpace. FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE combine efforts in their support of Open Access.