The AgriDrupal team released a new version (v. 6.3) of the AgrovocField module for Drupal 6, now available at, http://drupal.org/project/agrovocfield. Powerful functionalities This new version has two powerful functionalities for the use of AGROVOC in an information system: Automatic indexing It allows users to let Drupal assign automatically ...

According to the news item posted on Scidev.net, the Argentina's Chamber of Deputies passed a bill stating that all national scientific institutions must provide open access to the research archives and raw data with six months and five years embargo periods respectively and the law is under consideration by ...

Part of the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'12) 28-30 November 2012 - Cádiz (Spain) Aim The aim of the Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures is to serve as a discussion forum for experts to present recent results ...

The Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC) is calling for papers to be presented at the 2nd Zimbabwe International Conference on Open Access. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 June 2012 The 2nd International Conference on Open Access will focus on the impact of the OA paradigm to various knowledge solutions as well ...

The 31st of May the first release of the agINFRA Science Gateway was announced. This release is developed by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) of the University of Catania. Italian Soil Information System (ISIS) The gateway meshes-up Grid Computing and Cloud Computing enabled applications and lets users access ...