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IODE Project Office starts "Distance Lecturing"

09/11/2011

  The IODE OceanTeacher programme applied its own teaching during the Training Course on Outreach and Communication Tools (7-11 November 2011) by using distance education technology: one of the lecturers, rather than physically traveling to Oostende, presented her lecture through the Internet. Students were able to interact with the lecturer by audio ...

FAO Country Profiles: Addition of links to TECA

09/11/2011

TECA is a platform where one can find practical information on agricultural technologies and practices to help small producers in the field. The TECA knowledge base gives access to hundreds of applied and easy to replicate technologies and practices in about 80 countries. The information available in TECA is expected to ...

FAOSTAT among ten most amazing databases

07/11/2011

PopSci.com, a leading source of science and technology news, published an article on the ten most amazing databases in the world. The idea behind this top ten is to show that databases do much more than store knowledge: “They provide researchers with new ways to solve long-cold crimes, predict ...

UNESCO launches Global Open Access Portal

02/11/2011

Top level view of Open Access to scientific information The Global Open Access Portal(GOAP), aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters. The portal has ...

LC releases plan for new bibliographic framework for the 21st century

01/11/2011

"Z39.2/MARC are no longer fit for the purpose" The Library of Congress(LC) released for dissemination, sharing, and feedback the initial plan for a new Bibliographic Framework that will serve the library community and related communities well into the fuure. LC developed the plan in collaboration with librarians, standards ...