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Free and unrestricted access to research results and publications, known as open access (OA), is key to speeding up scientific discovery. There is also growing evidence that OA maximises the impact of research through better dissemination and uptake of research findings. But how can we make this a truly global and sustainable endeavour? This was [...]

A new article published by the CBD Secretariat on the new ECO initiative. To answer complex needs of the ECO region, an initiative has been proposed to integrate National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) of all state members of the ECO region in order to develop a Regional Biodiversity Plan of Action (RBPA). This [...]

  The ECO-IEST first educational programme, a Postgraduate Certificate on Environmental Management (PCEM) invites experts who work in governmental agencies in the ECO region and rest of the World, to apply.  

The International Workshop for Islamic Scholars: "Agri-biotechnology: Shariah Compliance" jointly organized by the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) and International Halal Integrity Alliance (IHIA) was conducted last 1 to 2 December in Penang, Malaysia. The participants adopted a resolution that accepts GM crops and products as halal should all ingredients used to develop them are [...]

Your support is urgently needed to ensure that world leaders make good on their promises to provide treatment, care and support to the millions living with and/or affected by HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. World leaders will meet in New York, USA, on the 4th and 5th October 2010 to announce their financial contributions [...]

while a number of United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) publications are available in the Internet Archive site, the World Atlases are now available online, as outstanding copyright issues have been resolved.

Effective August 28, ScienceDirect, Scopus and the targeted web content from Scirus have been integrated within one platform – SciVerse. Over time, SciVerse will form the core of an ecosystem in which researchers and librarians work with publishers and developers to build collections of applications targeted to the specific interests and workflows of researchers. By [...]

African national parks such as Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, Cambridge researchers have warned. The results are published this week in Biological Conservation and the research was funded by NERC and UNEP-WCMC.

At the crossroads of intellectual, scientific and political thinking, this 2nd UNESCO World Report aims to take stock of all that is being said, thought and done in the name of cultural diversity, and tease out the necessary conditions for diversity to become an asset and not a threat, a source of renewal for public [...]

Important (and exciting) news in the world of shared vocabularies at Science Commons, a key component of our technical work to make knowledge sharing more efficient.