AIMS offers access to free webinars to all interested parties on a variety of information, data and knowledge. Topics include: open access, open data, research data management, knowledge information systems, data curation, metadata, linked open data, big data, open tools and standards supporting stewardship of information and data in agriculture, along with other domains.

Webinars

  • Webinar@ASIRA: New Roles for Changing Times : UNAM Subject Librarians in Context

    The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries.This Webinar contextualises/ discusses the changing roles of Subject Librarians at the University of Namibia (UNAM) in view of new research support, scholarly communications, information literacy, bibliometrics and data management ...
  • Webinar@ASIRA: Emerging Themes in Agricultural Research Publishing

    The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--This webinar covers three emerging themes in life science publishing, which will begin to influence the way in which the agricultural researchers share and access knowledge:Faster dissemination: Publishing scientific articles ...
  • OKAD & F1000Research: a very different approach to publishing agricultural research

    Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This ...
  • Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Agricultural Research

    There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. The Center for Open Science has a mission to increase the transparency, reproducibility, and inclusivity of scientific research by offering free tools and services to researchers. Please join us for a webinar, conducted by ...
  • Research4Life: La bibliothèque qui ouvre ses portes (FR)

    Le programme Research4Life est un partenariat public-privé entre l’OMS, la FAO, le PNUE, l’OMPI, les Universités Cornell et Yale, des partenaires technologiques et plus de 200 éditeurs scientifiques représentés par l’Association internationale des éditeurs de la STM.Le programme fournit aux pays à revenu plus ...
  • Publishing SKOS concept schemes with SKOSMOS

    With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF publishing tools, those tools are not ...
  • Research4Life: La biblioteca que abre puertas (ES)

    Research4Life es una colaboración pública-privada de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la FAO, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), las bibliotecas de las universidades de Cornell y Yale, la Asociació...
  • Webinar@AIMS: Research4Life: The library that opens doors (EN)

    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 ...