Today, an increasing number of funding agencies, journals, and other stakeholders are requiring data producers to share, archive, and plan for the management of their data. Effectively managing data can also help optimize research outputs, increase the impact of research, and support open scientific inquiry. In order to respond to ...

The free GODAN e-learning course on Open Data and Research Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition - started on 13 November 2017 - is at its third week.The course focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and ...

AgTrials.org is an information portal developed (in 2012) by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), in collaboration with a number of national and international partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID.  The AgTrials initiative builds on decades of evaluation trials, mostly of ...

AGRIS team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) takes this opportunity to : Inform all interested parties about AGRIS November 2017 data release with 25,024 new records (out of 9,099,370 records) !Thank all AGRIS Contributors and Users !Submit your data to AGRIS : The AGRIS team kindly invites eligible institutions ...

Searching an information database such as AGRIS requires also an awareness of some of the features of the service. In the first part of this series, “AGRIS Advanced Search Possibilities” we focused on how users can create effective search strategies using the a combination of syntaxes borrowed from the Boolean ...