AIMS

ICRISAT repositories have ensured tremendous web-wide visibility and access to the research output that the ICRISAT scientists produce

28/04/2014

When did ICRISAT first take steps towards making its' information more 'open'? I joined ICRISAT only in September 2010.  As I don’t have clear records about the proto steps taken prior to my joining, it is very difficult for me to say precisely when the first steps were taken in ...

Towards open science to face agriculture challenges

28/03/2014

When did INRA first take steps towards making its information more 'open'? Why were these early steps taken - what was the key motivation?The first steps were taken ten years ago by INRA Open access pioneers from our Animal Physiology & Livestock Systems Research Division and it mainly involved publications. ...

Thematic Interview

Capacity development activities in information standards, tools and methodologies through delivering Webinars@AIMS

20/03/2014

Karna Wegner is an Information Management Specialist within the AIMS team and has been responsible for coordinating the Webinars@AIMS. In this brief interview we interviewed her to get more into the happenings behind the scenes and subsequent delivery of the [email protected]. Could you briefly explain what the work ...

Thematic Interview

AGRIS : meeting the global agricultural information need

17/02/2014

Fabrizio Celli (Software Engineer) is the technical leader for the AGRIS team and since February 2010 he has been working on the improvement of AGRIS developing the version 2.0 of the AGRIS search engine, and dealing with Linked Open Data technologies. He has been leading the developments towards the AGRIS 2.0 and has ...

experts-on-open-access

ONKI Project: providing accessibility to controlled vocabularies, an interview with Osma Suominen

30/01/2014

The AIMS editorial team invited Mr.Osma Suominen to share the experience of the ONKI project, from the National Library of Finland.This use case is provided below in the form of a Question and Answer.Q1. Kindly let us know about yourself and your work related to the Finto....