The Journals Online (JOL)project provides advice to journals wishing to publish online, including resource guides and links to suitable technologies and hosting organisations. Focusing on a system developed for groups of journals to publish on community websites, the JOLs provide a cost-effective and secure forum for online journals, which ...

An useful and interesting paper (see attachment) on experiences of ICT interventions in South Asia, in the areas of agriculture and rural development is: Necessary but not sufficient: information and communication technology and its role in putting research into use The paper was published last June by the Research Into ...

On behalf of the MODS/MAD Committe In the interest of better information sharing in our communities, the MODS/MADS Editorial Committee has set up a public wiki for MODS and MADS information. Currently, the wiki content focuses mostly on the Editorial Committee's work, but we hope this wiki will ...

Presentations and poster abstracts from the Open Access Africa 2011 conference that took place took place on 25-26 October at Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology (KNUST) in Ghana are now available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica/program and http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica/posterabstracts

Aside from different efforts to tackle the author identity problem on a global scale, such as ORCID, Google launched its own Citations product today as an addition to Google Scholar. What is it? Basically, Google Scholar Citations offers public researcher profiles, together with citations, h-index and i10 index calculations. By ...