AIMS

Agricultural Research Organizations meet to discuss Horizon2020 opportunities

01/11/2013

Wednesday 31 and Thursday 31 more than  20 representatives from European and International Agricultural Research Organizations met to discuss opportunities offered by the new Horizon2020 program of the  European Commission. In the first part of the meeting ongoing projects were presented. It emerged clearly from most of the presentations that there is an ...

Recommended! "Metadata and Repository Services for Research Data Curation" Webinar

29/10/2013

On October 15 the second webinar in the DuraSpace Webinar Series: Research Data in Repositories was held.  Declan Fleming - Chief Technology Strategist-, Arwen Hutt - Metadata Librarian-, and Matt Critchlow - Manager of Development and Web Services from UC - San Diego Library presented, “Metadata and Repository Services for Research ...

AGROVOC and Arabterm

29/10/2013

Arabterm.org is an initiative of ALECSO and supported by GIZ, to provide a standardized technical terminology in Arabic. Arabterm.org is organized per industry sector. Currently 2 volumes are available online (Water technologies & Automotive engineering) and some 14 more are planned. The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and ...

Data infrastructure providers and practitioners meet at the EUDAT 2nd Conference in Rome

28/10/2013

The European Data Conferences (EDAT) addresses new data challenges in the case of cross-disciplinary sciences and services in view of the European Commission's imminent Horizon 2020 programme. The 2nd conference brings data infrastructure providers and practitioners together to discuss current infrastructure challenges and a solutions, with a focus on interoperability, cross-disciplinarity ...

Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licences

25/10/2013

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), has announced the availability of a report entitled 'Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licences: Current State and Lessons Learned'. The report presents the results of a review of licences that secure the rights for authors and/or their institutions to deposit published articles ...