To jump on global celebrations of the International Open Access week 2017, on 23 October 2017 FigShare released DigitalScience/Figshare landmark report entitled The State of Open Data 2017.  The report looks at global attitudes towards Open Data (#stateofopendata).   Its key finding is that Open Data has become more embedded in the research community ...

See: SPARC site highlighting examples of concrete benefits of making research openHappy International OPEN ACCESS Week , #OAweek , #OAWeek17 ! To celebrate the 10th edition of this global community-driven event, a number of communities of practice world-wide are pushing their #OpenAccess- themed events, new projects, webinars, posts . . . and many other initiatives and ...

Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition online course (on GODAN portal) 19th November - 7th December 2018 1st - 19th October 2018 2nd July – 27th July 2018  9th April - 4th May 2018 13th November - 8th December 2017 ​in English - have been delivered through the FAO of the UN MOODLE e-learning platform.   ...

African Open Science Platform (AOSP) was launched in 2016 as the Africa-wide initiative to exploit the potential and promote the value of Open Data for Open Science.  By sharing : news on Open Science and Open Data-related events, as well as knowledge on the development and coordination of Data Policies, Data Training ...

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) is one of the four Research4Life programmes that provides free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. AGORA was launched in October 2003 and today, after ...