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Libraries help to reach Millennium Development Goals

17/04/2012

Beyond Access released a new report showing how libraries are helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Each of the eight MDGs is illustrated by stories from different libraries around the world, emphasizing the role that libraries are taking in helping to meet the Millennium Development Goals. You can ...

FAO Country Profiles Newsletter No. 11

16/04/2012

The 11th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition includes an article focusing on information from the field available in the FAO Country Profiles, such as news, events and country reports from decentralized offices, and other in-country initiatives. The newsletter also features the Worldwide offices Web ...

New ARD information services registered on CIARD Ring

11/04/2012

Currently the CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) contains 278 services/sources and 141 providers that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development (ARD). Six new resources have been added since the end of March. To stay updated on the newly registered resources take a look at ...

Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of OA

10/04/2012

UNESCO published Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Accessto demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Dr. Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd (United Kingdom), wrote the publication. She is a leading expert in scholarly ...

WUR harvesting (April 2012)

05/04/2012

Background Data from WUR is missing in AGRIS from 2004 (last year input). The WUR harvest was achieved using the following parameters: Base URL: http://library.wur.nl/oai Date Range: Jan. 2004 – Dec.2011 Set: non specified Metadata format: agris_ap Number of records: 123,409 Full-text links: 123,409 Crosscheck of two agris ap records ...