It's a free, open-access knowledge base about edible plants.
Due to the largest EVD epidemic in history, there is a dire need to consolidate and integrate all available knowledge that we currently possess or could be retrieved from open-access knowledge bases and available literature, on the EBOV genome.
Open access makes knowledge accessible and reusable, accelerates the pace of discovery and discussion, maximizes the return on our investment in research, and speeds the development of all the benefits that depend on research, from new medicines and useful technologies to informed decisions, solved problems, and improved public policies.
The challenges for open access to knowledge.
One landmark, said Kansa, was the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
Jorge Vargas, Head of Regional Partnerships at the Wikimedia Foundation, will speak on law and policy issues concerning the "Power of Open" - Open Internet, Open access, Open knowledge, and open source.
Another (admittedly crude) way to approach the question of open access to knowledge is to examine how easy it is to get to the school's research.
The French National Center for Scientific Research participated in 2003 in the creation of the influential Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
NotesMaster, a custom built learning environment that allows students open access to knowledge and educational resources and to collaborate remotely while learning, was rolled out in the British Virgin Islands late last year in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria.
During an academic conference in Messina in November 2004, Italian universities joined the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, in Italy thereafter known as the "Declaration of Messina".
