The EIFL-OA programme invites proposals for organising national or institutional open access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities. EIFL particularly wishes to involve active researchers and students, research administrators and policy makers, university presses, society publishers, researchers/research groups as publishers and journalists. Application procedure Proposals should: Provide ...

The AGROVOC LOD has expanded recently with two more data sets (now 13 in total) SWD (German: Schlagwortnormdatei) is a controlled keyword or descriptor system (subject indexing), that is mainly used for indexing in libraries. The SWD is managed by the German National Library (DNB) in cooperation with various library networks. ...

Openagri is an open repository based on Drupal CMS and built on the same architecture design as of Agropedia . It was developed by IIT Kanpur and ICRISAT in collaboration with FAO of the UN in January 2010. It contains 900 full text documents and 1,700 registered users. In Openagri one can upload published ...

The European Commission seeks comments on three fundamental data entities. Citizens are invited to participate in the development of three fundamental collections of technical definitions that will be used for online electronic public administration services. These definitions will help solve the problem of incompatible vocabularies used by the individual developers ...

Electronic Information For Libraries (EIFL), in 2011 provided financial support to 13 projects that initiated open access advocacy campaigns at national and institutional level to reach out to research communities and also stimulate open access publishing initiatives. These projects, drawn from African and Eastern European countries, 11 projects focused on OA advocacy and 2 ...