AIMS

Webinar on "Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"

26/05/2014

We are please to invite you to take part in the webinar on "Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!" that will take place on 5th June at 11:00-12:00 (CEST) and also at 16:00-17:00 (CEST). This webinar is part of the activities related to the Pathway ...

OpenAIRE-COAR 2014 Conference debrief

26/05/2014

Myself and my colleague Vassilis Protonotarios attended (representing Agro-Know) the recently held OpenAIRE-COAR 2014 conference held under the theme Open Access Movement to Reality : Putting the Pieces Together. The conference was organised by OpenAIRE project and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). In summary, the event focused on open access ...

More than 3,000 repositories in BASE

20/05/2014

BASE has announced that it has reached two milestones and (i)now indexes more than 60,000,000 OAI-records from (ii) more than 3,000 repositories worldwide. This figure comes as a result of 250 new repositories indexed in 2014 indicating the importance of repositories. This increase makes BASE now one of the largest academic search engines ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences issues Open Acces policy

20/05/2014

You can read the original post at: http://english.cas.cn/Ne/CASE/201405/t20140516_121037.shtml Researchers & students required to deposit in open access repositories The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will promote open access to scientific articles generated from publicly funded research, the academy announced Thursday in Beijing.  In a ...

Workshop on Integration of Heterogeneous dAta sources and onTologiEs in Life Science and Environment -CfP

14/05/2014

The AIMS community is advised that papers are accepted by the Workshop on Integration of Heterogeneous dAta sources and on onTologiEs in Life Science and Environment (WHATELSE, ICCS 2014) until the 1st of June,2014. The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer scientists from knowledge engineering and experts in ...