AIMS Newsletter no.55, October 2016 | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

"During 2016, the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) programme registered a number of mile stones.

The most noticeable development being the upward growth in the collections deposited and made available through AGORA and the increase in the usage of these collections. AGORA saw a massive 1,209 new journal titles being added  - bringing AGORA journal collections to more than 6,565 journals and, correspondingly, a number of e-book collections were added - the e-book collection grew to over 22,000! The e-books came from reputable publishers such as Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford University Press amongst many others. This addition included also the Nature & Faune journal published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO of the United Nations). Another significant addition was the SHARE dataset. SHARE is a collection of open-access data and enriches AGORA with data making AGORA users benefit from direct access to an additional 125 open access data providers."