The Electronic Publishing Trust has announced an annual award for individuals in developing and transition countries who have made significant advances to the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings.
The EPT seeks nominations from Individuals/organisations who may nominate themselves or others to the chair ...
With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions. The British Library for Development Studies The British Library for Development Studies(BLDS) has the ...
DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, took place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague from 21 through 23 September 2011. AIMS's presence at DC-2011
The AIMS team presented the paper Thesaurus Alignment for Linked Data Publishingon the work done mapping AGROVOC to six other ...
The challenge: access to knowledge fundamental for development
Access to knowledge is fundamental to education and research, the improvement of lives, and the creation of human capital upon which the development of societies depends. Libraries play a key role through the provision of high quality information resources and services. However, ...
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories(COAR) is facilitating a discussion about interoperability among Open Access repositories within the global context. To kick off this process, COAR has released a briefing paper, 'The Case for Interoperability for Open Access Repositories', an overview of interoperability and selected current issues. The paper ...
