Agricultural Information Worldwide – Online and Open

In 2008, IAALD re-launched its professional journal under the title ‘Agricultural Information Worldwide’ – Aginfo Worldwide.

From April 2010, AgInfo Worldwide is published ‘web-only’ using the open journals system (OJS).

http://journals.sfu.ca/iaald/

The web-only edition allows IAALD to continue providing a high-quality professional journal, with lower cost and greater accessibility.

We also aim to make the full-text archive of the IAALD Quarterly Bulletin available on the web.

The April 2010 issue contains the following articles:

Agricultural Information and Knowledge Sharing: Promising Opportunities for Agricultural Information Specialists

La información agrícola y el intercambio de conocimientos: Oportunidades promisorias para los especialistas en información agraria

Benchmarking CGIAR research outputs for availability and accessibility

Learning to Swim: How IFPRI Uses Multiple Web Channels to Communicate Research Outputs

AGRIS - From a bibliographic database to a semantic data service on agricultural research information

Disponibilidad, accesibilidad y aplicabilidad de los resultados de investigación de los Centros del Grupo Consultivo para la Investigación Agrícola Internacional (CGIAR)

VERCON – the Virtual Extension and Research Communication Network

Mobile Services in a Wireless World: The CTA 2009 ICT Observatory Meeting

How journal articles may come to be published

"Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online.

The project's goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques. We have developed prototypes for two articles from Cell to demonstrate initial concepts and get feedback from the scientific community."

What do we think? Seems to be more about presentation and the introduction of other types and forms of results (podcasts, video). Doesn't seem to suggest any opening up of all or some parts of the content.

IAALD journal re-launches

new iaald journal

In early 2008, IAALD launches a new journal - Agricultural Information Worldwide.

After 52 volumes, the 'Quarterly Bulletin of IAALD' closed at the end of 2007.

An International Journal for Information Specialists in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and the Environment, 'AgInfo World' will debut in March 2008 with a special issue on e-agriculture.

Contact the editor to submit an article.

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