Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and over 200 international scientific publishers. It provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Eligible libraries and their ...

To help reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, CGIAR must tap into Big Data.  Within the programme on Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), researchers have already applied Big Data analytics to agricultural and weather records in Colombia, revealing how climate variation impacts rice yields.  After defining its Open ...

Although the main bibliometric databases (Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus) claim to include journals on the basis of scientific and publication standards, there have long been concerns that its coverage is biased in favour of journals from industrialised countries and towards topics relevant to these countries. This webinar presents ...

Agricultural and environmental researchers traditionally work with large data sets and have through time developed their ways to handle scenarios involving massive data. Current developments in ICT and (big) data science potentially provide innovative and more effective ways to do this. However there are numerous barriers and pitfalls, sometimes unknown ...

Acceso a la investigación mundial en línea sobre la agricultura (AGORA) desarrollado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) junto con la Universidad de Cornell y con importantes editoriales, ofrece acceso a colecciones bibliográficas digitales en el ámbito ...

The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “How to practically support Open Access: Guidelines for Data Providers of the OpenAIRE scholarly communication infrastructure". It will present an overview about the evolution of OpenAIRE guidelines, challenges and methodologies.  It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and ...

The AIMS team in cooperation with the BigDataEurope consortium is pleased to present the webinar “INRA's Big Data Perspectives and Implementation Challenge”. It willpresent perspectives and implementation challenges of big data for agronomic research organisations.  It is open for information management specialists, librarians, software developers and other interested people.Abstract"...

AIMS is a community of practice for agricultural information management practitioners worldwide. The strength of AIMS lies in its two fold ability. Firstly, that it is the portal of choice providing information about standards, technology and good practices in the context of Open Access and Open Data. Secondly, that it ...

Developed by Paul Walk and colleagues at EDINA, RIOXX is designed to provide a mechanism to help UK institutional repositories comply with the national funders' requirements for reporting on open access outputs from public funding. RIOXX focuses on applying consistency to the metadata fields used to record research funder and ...

This webinar will focus on the efforts made by librarians in Namibia in lobbying the policy makers; to understand the critical role that libraries play in national development programs; to include libraries in high level national policy statements; and in providing resources needed for libraries to play their critical role ...