<div>**** apologies for cross postings ***</div><div><br></div>Dear all,<br><br>We are glad to inform all of you that as part of the <a href="http://www.ciard.net/">CIARD Movement</a> the <a href="http://aims.fao.org">Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) </a>community is organizing a series of webinars on the theme "<b>Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible"</b> during Open Access Week 2012. The event is co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). The webinars will take place from October 23 to 26.<br>
<br><div>On October 23, Enrica Porcari and Jean-Claude Guédon will talk about the experience of <a href="http://www.cgiar.org/">CGIAR </a>and the status of Open Access focusing in the agricultural domain respectively. On October 24, Alma Swan will focus on Open Access policy developments and Wouter Gerritsma will present the value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository. On October 25 and 26, the event will consist of three webinars composed of short presentations on "Promotion of Open Access", "Search Engines for Open Access Web Resources" and "Digital Repository Development Use Cases" experiences. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For more information on the time schedule, how to join the webinars and system requirements please visit the <a href="http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012">Open Acccess Week @ AIMS programme</a>. Do not worry if you can't make it: the sessions will be recorded and you can play them back from the <a href="http://aims.fao.org/">AIMS</a>, <a href="http://www.ciard.net/">CIARD </a>and <a href="http://www.sidalc.net/">SIDALC </a>(Agricultural Information and Documentation Service of the Americas) portals.<br>
<br>More information at <a href="http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012">http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012</a><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you there!<div><br>--------------<div><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailAutoSig">Imma Subirats </a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Knowledge and Information
Management Officer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>OEKC, FAO of
the United Nations</b></p>
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Caracalla</p>
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