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Join the Webinar: Creative Commons for Agricultural Research – Licensing, Reuse and Good Practices
11/09/2026
22 September 2026 | 12:00 UK time / 13:00 CEST | Register here Creative Commons licences can help researchers and other knowledge professionals share, reuse and build on agricultural research with greater confidence. This webinar will provide practical guidance on how Creative Commons licences work...
Connecting Canadian research to global discovery: FAO AGRIS and Érudit
10/09/2026
Discover six Canadian journals available through FAO AGRIS through a collaboration with Érudit, connecting research on agriculture, water, environment and plant health with global scientific literature.
Seeds of Knowledge: A Lifetime Devoted to Sharing Agricultural Research
04/09/2026
At the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), inside a university library that has seen four decades of quiet, steady work, Virginia Parot-Alcantara sits at her desk the way she has for nearly forty years — reviewing entries, checking subject descriptors, making sure Philippine agricultural...
Trusted, Public, and Built to Last: How OpenAgrar Safeguards Germany’s Agricultural Knowledge
10/07/2026
This text was written in collaboration with OpenAgrar. In an information landscape increasingly shaped by commercial publishers and paywalled access, publicly funded repositories play a quiet but essential role: they keep scientific knowledge independent, accessible, and available to everyone who...
When One Character Disrupts a Harvest — Exchanging Experiences on Metadata Encoding During the FAO AGRIS Brown Bag Session
08/07/2026
The FAO AGRIS Brown Bag Session brings together repository managers and data providers from organisations around the world to exchange experiences on metadata management and interoperability — addressing challenges that many institutions face individually but rarely have the space to discuss...

