FAO-webinars

Tuesday 23:rd October

• Opening Access to Agriculture Research Products: The Experience of CGIAR
  Enrica Porcari, CGIAR
  Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Language: English
  Local time Uppsala: 11:00-12:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library
• From Tactical to strategic thinking: picking priorities in Open Access
  Jean-Claude Guédon, University of Montréal
  Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Local time Uppsala: 16:00-17:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library

Wednesday 24:th October

• Open Access policy developments
  Alma Swan, SPARC, Key Perspectives Ltd, Enabling Open Scholarship
  Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Language: English
  Local time Uppsala: 10:30-11:30. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library
• Value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository (WaY)
  Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library
  Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Language: English
  Local time Uppsala: 16:00 – 17:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library

Thursday 25:th October:

• Promotion of Open Access
  Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Local time Uppsala: 11:00 – 12:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library

Language: The session will be delivered in English only
Join: write to AIMS@fao.org before Wednesday, October 17, mentioning the webinar title.
This session contains the following 3 short presentations:

1. Results of the New AGRIS Vision 2007-2012: promoting Open Access to Research by Stefano Anibaldi, FAO of the United Nations, Italy (10')
2. Open Access Repositories: Capacity Strengthening Programme for Africa (OA - IRCSP): Towards visibility, accessibility and usability of African intellectual output by Africa Bwamkuu, Royal Tropical Institute - KIT, The Netherlands (10')
3. Open Access India: Towards Making Agricultural Research Publicly Available and Accessible by Sridhar Gutam, Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture - CISH, India (10')

• Search Engines for Open Access Web Resources
  Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Local time Uppsala: 16:00-17:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library

Language: The session will be delivered in English (1 and 2) and Spanish (3)
Join: write to AIMS@fao.org before Wednesday, October 17, mentioning the webinar title.
This session contains the following 3 short presentations:

1. BASE : a powerful search engine for open access documents by Friedrich Summann, Bielefeld University Library, Germany (10')
2. OER Commons Green: Aggregating Best-in-Class Green Open Educational Resources by Madalina Ungur, Vassilis Protonotarios, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece (10')
3. Utilizando catálogos de bibliotecas para compartir contenido a texto completo de calidad: la experiencia del SIDALC by Manuel Hidalgo, Alianza de Servicios de Información y Documentación Agropecuaria de las Américas - SIDALC, Costa Rica (10')

Friday 26:th October

• Digital Repository Development Use Cases
  Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rome time (Convert to another time zone)
  Local time Uppsala: 16:00-17:00. Webinar room Sekunda, SLU University Library

Language: The session will be delivered in English (1) and Spanish (2 and 3)
Join: write to AIMS@fao.org before Wednesday, October 17, mentioning the webinar title.
This session contains the following 3 short presentations:

1. A KARI and KAINet Institutional Repository Development Case Study by Richard Kedemi, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya (10')
2. Análisis de resultados y estrategias de mejora en repositorios de libre acceso: el caso de citaREA by Andrés Yubero, Ascensión Bolea y Marta Carracedo, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - CITA, Spain (10')
3. Creativos Comunes y Archive Scanning de Google en la producción editorial del IICA by Federico Sancho, Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura - IICA, Costa Rica (10')