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Information Technology Issues in developing countries

17/02/2012

Efforts by developing countries to come up with local Information Technology (IT) solutions to counteract the challenges they face are well documented in the newsletter entitled, “Information Technology in Developing Countries”. In its February 2012 issue, this newsletter presents four case studies in India where local information systems solutions are applied ...

Organic Eprints Experience - Denmark

15/02/2012

The International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS) was founded in 2008 as an expansion and continuation of the former Danish Agricultural Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF, founded 1995), which the Danish Government decided to provide with an international mandate and an international board. The vision of ICROFS is ...

Tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative

15/02/2012

The 10th anniversary of the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was celebrated yesterday, February 14, 2012, in Budapest. The meeting was convened by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and focussed on what was learnt over the past ten years and how the next ten can be navigated. Read the ...

How students can get involved in Open Access advocacy

13/02/2012

EIFL hosted on January 31, 2012 in the context of its Open Access programme a webcast with Nick Shockey, Director of Right to Research Coalition and of Student Advocacy, SPARC. Involve students more in Open Access advocacy The target audience of the webcast was students and young researchers who want to get ...

Set of "Features" for implementing a repository in Drupal

13/02/2012

The latest development in the AgriDrupal community is a set of Features that packages the essential AgriDrupal functionalities into a few modules that can be installed in any Drupal website. In Drupal, a feature is a collection of Drupal entities / functionalities which taken together satisfy a certain use-case (http://drupal....