The VOA3R platform aims to provide an online social networking platform that will use metadata and semantics technology to deploy an advanced, community-focused integrated service for open sharing and retrieval of research content and data. It will allow users to express their research activities using explicit models of the ...

A Joint EFITA/VOA3R Workshop on Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repositories took place on July 13th in conjunction with the Joint Congress of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA 2011) and the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture (WCCA 2011) that took place in in Prague, Czech Republic. ...

Open Repositories is an annual conference for everyone interested and involved in the world of repositories - mainly institutional or subject repositories providing open access to research-related publications. This year's conference (OR11) was held in Austin, Texas, and hosted by the University of Texas. Imma Subirats and I agreed to ...

Open Repositories is an annual conference for everyone interested and involved in the world of repositories - mainly institutional or subject repositories providing open access to research-related publications. This year's conference (OR11) was held in Austin, Texas, and hosted by the University of Texas. Imma Subirats and I agreed to ...

In late 2011, the European Commission intends to adopt a Communication and Recommendation on access to and preservation of digital scientific information. This initiative builds on earlier policy developments in this area, and is being developed within the policy contexts of the EU Flagship Initiatives Innovation Union and Digital Agenda for ...