From its first incarnation, BioSharing.org - which focused on the life sciences - has grown into FAIRsharing.org, to serve (through interconencted standards, databases/repositories and data policies) users across all disciplines. Go to FAIRsharing.org - to discover what it's all about ... The rebranding is now complete ! _________________________________________________________________________________________________# Which ...

(Source: AGRIMATIE / Agro & Food Portal, Wageningen University & Research)Learning from each other : The AGRIMATIE portal combines the best available data sources and presents long-time developments on hundreds of indicators on themes like agricultural trade, farm income, environmental impacts, employment and prices. The portal contains all relevant data on Dutch agriculture. ...

(Source: EOSC Pilot)The Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP; 2016–2018) has recently adopted consensual reports on the European Open Science Cloud governance and on Open Access Publishing in Europe.  This latter gives recommendations on how to implement open access (OA) publishing in Europe by 2020. Moreover, the EOSC has also recently selected ...

The 2017 Africa Open Data Conference will take place next week in Accra, Ghana and will bring together over 600 delegates drawn from all over Africa and the world at large. On July 20th, 2017, there will be a capacity development policy session focussed on Agricultural Open Data Package (AgPack) and all interested ...

CIRAD has developed the approach : ImpresS  - a participatory method to assess agricultural research impacts in developing countries, - to document the contribution of research to changes within society and the mechanisms at work along the impact pathway. This policy brief (PDF – 873.05 ko) presents the key lessons learned from the ...