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EIFL-PLIP awards grants to 11 libraries in Africa

04/06/2012

The EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has awarded grants to eleven public and community libraries in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda. The new services will improve lives and livelihoods of farmers, health workers and their patients, and vulnerable children and youth. Through providing grants and building ...

MedOANet surveys: mapping current situation of Open Access in Mediterranean

01/06/2012

The Mediterranean Open Access Network (MEDOANET) is carrying out surveys among research performing institutions, research funders and academic and research publishers in order to map the current situation of Open Access in terms of policies and practices in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. The surveys are running from ...

AGRIS and RJOAS announce competition for youth research projects

31/05/2012

The Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS), supported by AGRIS, announced a competitive selection of the best youth research projects concerning the development and application of innovative technologies in the field of natural and the social sciences and humanities. Selection of projects The selection will take place at ...

Five new public library services for farmers in Kenya and Uganda

30/05/2012

Five new public library services for farmers have been launched in Kenya and Uganda with support from the EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP). These new services demonstrate the increasingly important role of public libraries in improving farmers’ lives and supporting agriculture development. Through providing grants ...

New on AIMS: Repository Development Case Studies

29/05/2012

A new menu topic called 'Repository Development Case Studies' has been added to the section 'Open Access' on AIMS. The objective of this section is to to collect stories on the creation of document repositories, like for example KAINet in Kenya, OpenAgri in India, and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (...