The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS September 2018 data release with 76,077 new records.  As of September 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,466,760 (July 2018: 9,268,679).   The next AGRIS data release will take place in October 2018. The AGRIS team at the ...

Open Agriculture Foundation: Why it does what it doesOpen Agriculture Foundation (OpenAg) - founded in 2015 by Caleb Harper as an initiative of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - is an open-source community of more than 2,000 members working towards building an ecosystem that spans research, non-profit, ...

The "GODAN Donor Open Data Policy and Practice" publication compares Open Data policies, and discusses putting policy into practice using lessons from implementation in five agriculture programmes. AUTHORS: Fiona Smith (Open Data Institute), Jamie Fawcett (Open Data Institute), Ruthie Musker (GODAN)This research was commissioned by a group of donors – ...

With REPOSITORY FINDER - hosted by DataCite - you can find an appropriate repository to deposit your research data.  REPOSITORY FINDER queries the re3data registry of research data repositories. REPOSITORY FINDER is a pilot project of the Enabling FAIR Data Project (2017-2019).ENABLING FAIR DATA PROJECT : GOALSFAIR-aligned data repositories ...

"Open Science refers to an approach to research based on greater access to public research data enabled by information and communications technology tools and platforms, broader collaboration in science – including the participation of non-scientists – and the use of alternative copyright tools for diffusing research results" (PDF; 2018 White Paper on Science, ...