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News from the International Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology in Berlin

02/06/2017

Source: WASET: Excellence in Research and Innovation for HumanityThe ICAST 2017 : 19th International Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Agricultural Science and Technology. ​_________________________________________________________________________________________________This conference brought together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in ...

AGORA : Tracking Usage Growth : May 2017

01/06/2017

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is one of the four programmes making up Research4Life (R4L) facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AGORA's goal is to provide free or low cost access (complementary to open access) to peer-reviewed journals (to date: 8279) ...

8 and 20 June: LIBER / Helmholtz Webinars: Systems and Services – Adding Value For Research Data Assets

01/06/2017

LIBER’s Working Group on Scientific Information Infrastructures is collaborating with Helmholtz to run two editions of an Open Science Webinar in June. Join us to hear how research institutions in Australia are maximising the value of their research data assets and for a discussion about how to create value ...

ICSU-WDS : Trusted Data Services for Global Science

01/06/2017

ICSU-World Data System (WDS) - an Interdisciplinary Body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) created in 2008 - promotes universal and equitable access to quality-assessed scientific data, data services, products, and information.________________________________________________________________________________________________________In its Strategic Plan 2014–2018, ICSU envisions scientific data services as those assisting organizations in the capture, storage, curation, ...

Why does ORCID matter ?

31/05/2017

The ORCID system is an emerging, yet widely supported, mechanism for assigning and managing persistent and unambiguous personal identifiers for use in the scholarly attribution chain. Implementing ORCIDs in digital repositories is another step toward uniquely identifying and connecting researchers and authors with their contributions and affiliations. This enhances discovery ...