The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has crafted an Open Access Policy and was published erlier this month. Through this policy, CAS will promote open access to scientific articles generated from...
The Wheat Data Interoperability working group which is backed by the Wheat Information System and endorsed by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) seeks to build a common framework to facilitate Wheat...
The 2nd International Conference on Research Infrastructures - ICRI 2014 [1] - was held from 2nd to 4th April 2014 in Athens, Greece at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre. ICRI is...
The Organic.Edunet network [1] was established back in 2008, when the Organic.Edunet eContentPlus [2]project [3]*/"Organic.Edunet: A Multilingual Federation of Learning Repositories with Quality...
From march 26-28 the 3rd plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance [1] took place in Dublin, Ireland. The RDA includes 2 groups related to Agricultural data. The Agricultural Data Interest...
*Background* Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet) is a response to demand from the national and international community to promote information exchange and access among stakeholders in...
Wageningen UR [1]is doing well in advocating for openness. If you look at the Open Access publications from Dutch higher education [2] you see in the left bottom corner a breakdown by Institution....
We are is pleased to announce the release of the *new CIARD website [1]*, designed with a fresh new look and user-friendly navigation, updated with the latest information about CIARD and the CIARD...
*Cusco, Peru - 23 & 24 May 2014* Mountains, covering approximately 25% of the Earth’s land surface, are home to about 850 million people and provide indispensable goods and services for all...
The Open Data movement is gaining steam, with new datasets and APIs coming online all the time. In 2013 dozens of international development organizations signed on to make agricultural and...
Representatives of national, regional and global organisations met for the CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) Global Consultation from 6-8 May 2013 at the...
The Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD [1]), French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural...
*Source: 3223rd European Union Council Meeting (Press Release - Provisional version as of 26/02/13) [1]* The European Union Council held a policy debate on open access to scientific information...