AIMS

DSpace : The most widely used digital repository software in the world!

12/09/2012

DSpace is an open source digital repository software and the software is designed to collect and share all types of digital assets including digital images, video, articles, datasets, working papers, and archives. While DSpace is managed by Duraspace, a non-for-profit organization based in the United States, the DSpace open source ...

The Web Index: Measuring the impact of the Web on people and nations

12/09/2012

In order for the Web to reach its full potential as "a tool that can improve living standards, reduce conflict and improve governance and well-being, it is important to understand how the Web impacts social, developmental, economic and political dimensions (1)." The Web Index attempts to measure this. The tool is ...

Beyond Access Conference 2012: Rediscovering Libraries

12/09/2012

On October 3 the Beyond Access Conference 2012 will take place in Washington DC (USA) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Theme of this one-day event is "Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries". The aim is to explore the “how” of information access, and its connection to development across ...

Alignment of standards for describing researchers and identifying them: VIVO, CERIF, CASRAI and ORCID

11/09/2012

One of the the most interesting developments around VIVO is the coordination with other international initiatives trying to set standards for both describing experts / researchers and their research activities and uniquely identifying them across systems. At VIVO 2012, Laurel Haak presented ORCID, the international, non-profit project providing a global registry of ...

IWMI submits new set of bibliographic data to AGRIS

10/09/2012

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) submitted a new set of bibliographic data to the AGRIS repository, referencing to open access publications from the IWMI Library Catalog, with relevant hyperlinks to the full-text. The data, containing information on water, land resources, irrigated agriculture, wetlands and so on, is now published ...