The Mediterranean Open Access Network (MEDOANET) is carrying out surveys among research performing institutions, research funders and academic and research publishers in order to map the current situation of Open Access in terms of policies and practices in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. The surveys are running from ...
The Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS), supported by AGRIS, announced a competitive selection of the best youth research projects concerning the development and application of innovative technologies in the field of natural and the social sciences and humanities. Selection of projects
The selection will take place at ...
Five new public library services for farmers have been launched in Kenya and Uganda with support from the EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP). These new services demonstrate the increasingly important role of public libraries in improving farmers’ lives and supporting agriculture development.
Through providing grants ...
A new menu topic called 'Repository Development Case Studies' has been added to the section 'Open Access' on AIMS. The objective of this section is to to collect stories on the creation of document repositories, like for example KAINet in Kenya, OpenAgri in India, and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (...
The FAO AIMS team has compiled a list of Open Access mandates in agriculture derived from the Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). It presents agricultural organizations with various types of institutional mandates – Institutional, Sub-institutional , Funders and Thesis mandates.
The list is prepared as a reference point ...
