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Cloud Cover: A Favorable Forecast for Open Access in Agriculture

05/03/2015

by Michael MarusThe cloud is no longer an overhyped IT buzzword or even just a trend to consider.These are inspiring times for Open Access in agriculture. The last decade has brought game-changing advances in ICTs – smartphones/tablets, broadband Internet, and open-source platforms for openly publishing just about any type ...

CHAIN-REDS Conference: “Open Science at the Global Scale" - Brussels - March 31, 2015

03/03/2015

The CHAIN-REDS project​ partners are proud to announce the “Open Science at the Global Scale: Sharing e-Infrastructures, Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Progress” Conference to be held in Brussels on March 31, 2015 at Marivaux Hotel. This major event in the field of e-Infrastructures for Research and Education is organised by the CHAIN-REDS project, ...

CfP:MTSR 2015: 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference

02/03/2015

MTSR 2015: 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference September 9-11, 2015 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Important DatesMay 19th 2015: Paper submission deadlineJune 16th 2015: Acceptance/rejection notificationJune 30th 2015: Camera-ready papers dueSeptember 9th – 11th 2015: Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, United KingdomMotivation Continuing the successful mission of previous MTSR Conferences (MTSR'05, MTSR'07, MTSR'09, MTSR'10, MTSR'11, MTSR’12, ...

DSPACE SECURITY ADVISORY: New DSpace 5.1, 4.3 and 3.4 releases resolve security issues in XMLUI and JSPUI

02/03/2015

The DSpace technical team has circulated the following security advise. In recent weeks, several security vulnerabilities where discovered in the XMLUI and JSPUI of DSpace 3.x, 4.x and 5.x sites. Some of these vulnerabilities also affect DSpace 1.x.x sites. While these security vulnerabilities vary in severity (see below), WE ...

EIFL Webinar on Open Access Journals & Books

02/03/2015

EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America.The EIFL Open Access Programme and the EIFL Licensing Programme will hold a joint webinar to show how ...