AIMS

Three libraries win EIFL-PLIP open government award

13/05/2013

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) is proud to announce the winners of their fourth Innovation Award – for library services that contribute to open government and e-government services. Congratulations to three public libraries: Šiauliai County ‘Povilas Visinkis’ Public Library in Lithuania for their e-government training programme which is creating ...

ICAR Starts Discussion 'Opening Access to Knowledge and Information in ICAR' on its Facebook Fan Page

13/05/2013

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had made its two flagship Journals Open Access few years back. This made the other scholarly reseach journals published by various societies in ICAR to follow the course and transformed their journals as Open Access Journals. Now the ICAR is in the process ...

First International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013)

10/05/2013

The first full-day International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats 2013) will take place in conjunction with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISCW 2013), October, 21-25, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. The call for papers is now open Important dates are: Deadline for paper submission: Friday, 12 July 2013, 23:59 (Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 9 ...

Cassava database becomes open access

07/05/2013

Cassavabase is a database of phenotypic and genotypic data generated by cassava breeding programs within the Next Generation Cassava Breeding (NEXTGEN Cassava) project*. The database makes available breeding data immediately available, thereby providing cassava researchers and breeders a key reference data source. The Cassava plant (Manihot esculenta) feeds more than 500 ...

AgINFRA and SemaGrow in 'European Commission Action Plan '

07/05/2013

AgINFRA and SemaGrow have been included in the European Commission Action Plan as part of the EC's commitment to deliver open access to publicly funded agriculturally relevant data for users in Africa and around the world. AIMS is involved in both projects.   'EC Action Plan' outcome of 'G-8 on Open ...