Paris, 16 November 2009


EFITA newsletter / 437 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


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It’s time to eat your dog
The eco-paw print of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.
See: http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/2987848/Save-the-planet-time-to-eat-dog


Internet in the Italian agriculture
I wrote for http://www.Agronotizie.it an article that summarizes three interesting facts concerning this topic:
a) Bolzano Province published a website to simplify bureaucratization for farmers
b) Two regions' PSR (Rural Development Plans) underline importance of broad band internet connection in rural areas
c) Istat (Italian Statistical institute) publishes data on internet access in farms
See: http://agronotizie.imagelinenetwork.com/web-tech/internet-in-agricoltura-presente-e-futuro-08297.cfm
Contact: Cristiano SPADONI
Mail: cristiano.spadoni(a)imageline.it


IRENA = International Renewable Energy Agency
See: http://www.irena.org


PEER - Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers
See: http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/

PEER is a pioneering collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, which aims to investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access) on user access, author visibility, journal viability and the broader European research environment. The project will run until 2011, during which time over 50,000 European stage-2 (accepted) manuscripts from over 240 journals will become available for archiving.

While the earlier Draft report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers (http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/) set out a preliminary deposit workflow, this final report reflects a collaborative effort between publishers and the library and repository stakeholder communities to achieve a feasible workflow for depositing stage-2 outputs and for the provision of log files from repositories to enable the research envisaged in the PEER project.

This report is the result of an ongoing cooperation between stakeholder groups comprising publishers and the library/repository community to establish best practice in deposit procedures that are least disruptive of existing publication workflows, while minimizing additional effort in repository ingest activities.

An innovative workflow has been devised to describe and standardise the deposit from publishers to repositories that demonstrates, in a core group of interoperable European repositories, the capability of accepting material deposited from third party publishers and authors beyond the project duration.

For enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: peer(a)stm-assoc.org

PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld

STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell

PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA); Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE); BiPrints, Universität Bielefeld (UNIBI); Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; University Library of Debrecen, Hungary Long-term preservation service: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)

See: http://www.peerproject.eu
Contact: Barbara BAYER-SCHUR
E-mail: bayer-schur(a)sub.uni-goettingen.de


Air Trip
A popular airline recently introduced a special half rate fare for wives who accompanied their husbands on business trips.

Expecting great feedback, the company sent out letters to all the wives of businessmen who had used the special rates, asking how they enjoyed their trip.

Letters are still pouring in asking, "What trip?"

Contact: Hubert OMONT
E-mail: hubert.omont(a)cirad.fr


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