ICSU-World Data System (WDS) - an Interdisciplinary Body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) created in 2008 - promotes universal and equitable access to quality-assessed scientific data, data services, products, and information.________________________________________________________________________________________________________In its Strategic Plan 2014–2018, ICSU envisions scientific data services as those assisting organizations in the capture, storage, curation, ...

The ORCID system is an emerging, yet widely supported, mechanism for assigning and managing persistent and unambiguous personal identifiers for use in the scholarly attribution chain. Implementing ORCIDs in digital repositories is another step toward uniquely identifying and connecting researchers and authors with their contributions and affiliations. This enhances discovery ...

(PEXELS under Creative Commons Zero - CC0)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors!We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar (as part of the Webinars@AIMS):  The case for Digital Objects Identifiers (DOIs) in support of research activities:DATE:Wednesday,  28 June, 2017TIME: 11.00 a.m. Rome Time (CEST ...

FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date legislative and policy database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws, regulations and policies on food, agriculture and natural resources management. Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the ...

(PEXELS under Creative Commons Zero - CC0)Dear AIMS Users and Visitors!We are pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar (as part of the Webinars@AIMS):  VB3: some insights on the forthcoming release of the third edition of the VocBench platform:DATE:Wednesday, 5 July, 2017TIME: 15.00 / 3.00 p.m. ...