The European Commission has two policies on Open Access in practice with the aim of ensuring that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council published Guidelines for Open Access In August 2008, the European Commission ...

The BBC hosted last wednesday, March 28, the event Libraries, Media and the Semantic Web. Journalists, archivists and software developers came together at the BBC Academy in London to hear what some of the major players in this field had to say about the concept of a semantic web. Speakers On ...

The EIFL-PLIP (Public Library Innovation Programme) published on its website a story on how the villagers of Glavinci in Central Serbia managed to obtain, with the help of their library, high speed internet for the whole village. AgroLib-Ja: free internet & online farm market The Glavinci village library is part of ...

EMBRAPA and AGRIS Details: Metadata format: MODS (METS) Range: 2000-2012 METS XML Schema: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd More than 16,000 records are harvested and stored at \\oek019\Harvester\OLD_data\EMBRAPA - Infoteca

A new informative page on OpenAGRIS is now available on the AIMS website, please see: aims.fao.org/openagris OpenAGRIS: enriching AGRIS The OpenAGRIS project started in 2011 with the objective of enriching the content of the AGRIS repository, a bibliographic data repository in the agricultural domain with more than 2.7 million ...