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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>******** Apologies for cross-posting ********<br><br>The Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) Community [1] is pleased to announce a new webinar entitled “OKAD & F1000Research: a very different approach to publishing agricultural research"[2]. The session will take place on the 28<sup>th</sup> of June 2016 – 16:00 Rome Time [3] and will be presented by Thomas Ingraham who is the Publishing Editor at F1000Research[4].<br><br>ABOUT THE WEBINAR<br><br>Open access has been a positive force in scientific publishing. But the removal of paywalls and restrictive licencing are not the only issues that need to be tackled; unnecessary delays to publication, irreproducible findings, publication biases, and poor access to underlying data and code also need to be addressed. This is especially important in agriculture and nutrition research where quick, unrestricted access to knowledge is crucial to solving urgent issues including food security, biodiversity conservation, and emerging infectious diseases in crops and animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>This webinar will cover how the novel approaches taken by the publication venue Open Knowledge in Agricultural Development (OKAD) [5] and the publishing platform it is hosted on, F1000Research, are addressing these issues. OKAD publishes academic articles, posters and slide presentations involving open knowledge projects within all areas of agriculture, nutrition and agro-biodiversity. By using F1000Research’s post-publication peer review platform, OKAD ensures rapid access to research within days of submission. Experts are invited to peer review upon publication, and their signed peer review reports are published alongside the article. All articles and any associated data and code are made publically available. <br><br>REGISTRATION<br><br>The session is open to anyone but places are limited. If you are interested to attend the webinar, send an e-mail to AIMS@fao.org, containing the following information: your name, affiliation, email, country and the name of the webinar.<br><br>[1] </span><a href="https://faohqmail.fao.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=0--jI3AQmkaX9LiALKvK0pn4AKshRtBIEJFdkf8WGnjIzRh5qOtb1l6UXZwSTxYKWumBwYZm7DA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2faims.fao.org" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://aims.fao.org</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> <br>[2] http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/webinaraims-okad-f1000research-very-different-approach-publishing-agricultural</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>[3] <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160628T16&p1=215&p2=108&p3=166&p4=33&p5=4&p6=269&p7=170&p8=45&p9=26&p10=370&p11=232&p12=263">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20160628T16&p1=215&p2=108&p3=166&p4=33&p5=4&p6=269&p7=170&p8=45&p9=26&p10=370&p11=232&p12=263</a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>[4] http://f1000research.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>[5] <a href="http://f1000research.com/channels/okad">http://f1000research.com/channels/okad</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Kind regards,<u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Karna Wegner<br>On behalf of the AIMS editorial team<br></span><a href="https://faohqmail.fao.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=0--jI3AQmkaX9LiALKvK0pn4AKshRtBIEJFdkf8WGnjIzRh5qOtb1l6UXZwSTxYKWumBwYZm7DA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2faims.fao.org" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://aims.fao.org</span></a><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>