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Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) Institutional Repository

16/06/2011

By Poloko Ntokwane The Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) was established on 31st May 1991. The college is a parastatal under the Ministry of Agriculture and an associate institution of the University of Botswana. It offers programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in five academic departments, namely; Animal Science and Production, ...

AgriOcean Dspace: New Publication

15/06/2011

AgriOcean Dspace is a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE to provide a customized version of DSpace using high standards for metadata, thesauri and other controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and other related sciences. The best ...

MADS version 2.0

08/06/2011

The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee and the Library of Congress are pleased to announce a new version of the Metadata Authority and Description Schema, MADS version 2.0. This is the first major revision of MADS since its initial release in 2005. Major changes in MADS 2.0 are: Elimination of dependence on the MODS ...

How to make Open Access to reach agriculture researchers in India

03/06/2011

Its my view that Open Access concept had not reached researchers in agriculture especially in India. From the time when first OA workshop was conducted by MSSRF in 2004 till date, we have only few journals are OA and very few OA repositories. When I suggest/ask my colleagues to make ...

LOD-LAM Summit in San Francisco, 2-3 June

01/06/2011

The International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit (LOD-LAM) will convene leaders in their respective areas of expertise from the humanities and sciences to catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data, specifically: Identify the tools and techniques for publishing and working with Linked Open Data. ...