Monthly Archives: June 2011

European Policy Centre (EPC) – An Independent Think Tank at the Cutting Edge of EU Affairs

June 01, 2011

European Policy Centre (EPC) – An Independent Think Tank at the Cutting Edge of EU Affairs
http://www.epc.eu/

The European Policy Centre (EPC) is an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work. The EPC works at the “cutting edge” of European and global policy-making providing its members and the wider public with rapid, high-quality information and analysis on the EU and global policy agenda. It aims to promote a balanced dialogue between the different constituencies of its membership, spanning all aspects of economic and social life. In line with its multi-constituency approach, members of the EPC comprise companies, professional and business federations, trade unions, diplomatic missions, regional and local bodies, as well as NGOs representing a broad range of civil society interests, foundations, international and religious organisations. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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African Portal – Online Knowledge Resource for Policy-Related Issues on Africa

June 01, 2011

African Portal – Online Knowledge Resource for Policy-Related Issues on Africa
http://www.africaportal.org/

The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa. An undertaking by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Makerere University (MAK), and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), the Africa Portal offers open access to a suite of features including an online library collection; a resource for opinion and analysis; an experts directory; an international events calendar; and a mobile technology component—all aimed to equip users with research and information on Africa’s current policy issues. A key feature to the Africa Portal is the online library collection holding over 3,000 books, journals, and digital documents related to African policy issues. The entire online repository is open access and available for free full-text download. A portion of the digital documents housed in the library have been digitized for the first time as an undertaking of the Africa Portal project. Facilitating new digitization projects is a core feature of the Africa Portal, which aims to improve access and visibility for African research. The Africa Portal is part of the Africa Initiative project. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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evly – Internet Crowdsourcing Platform

June 01, 2011

evly – Internet Crowdsourcing Platform
http://www.evly.com/

evly is an Internet crowdsourcing platform where a diverse variety of challenges can be solved by tapping into the power of social networks.So if you’re thinking right now on how evly can help you – imagine having a problem… and you have the ability to invite a wide range of people to solve that challenge as opposed to a single person. This is what we call crowdsourcing – tapping into the wisdom and power of the crowd. It is said that many hands make light work – and evly lets you experience that. From hosting single challenges on your profile pages and inviting your networks of friends to come help solve those challenges, right through to easily creating powerful customizable crowdsourcing sites with diverse multiple ongoing challenges – evly offers all this and more. Their aim is to constantly strive to let you tap into a platform that is easy to use, iterative, lets you host media rich challenges with multi-level responses and voting as well as experience scale. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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International Journal of Students’ Research (IJSR)

June 01, 2011

International Journal of Students’ Research (IJSR)
http://www.ijsronline.com/index.php/IJSR

International Journal of Students’ Research (IJSR) is an online, open access journal purely dedicated to students’ research from the fields of medicine and allied health sciences. It traverses all boundaries and acknowledges the work done by students from all over the world. It is a platform for young and budding researchers to allow them to be read and evaluated globally. Mission and Objectives of the Journal: a) To create a platform for the students of medical and allied health sciences to get their research work published; b) To provide a medium for the preservation and distribution of the results generated out of students’ scientific medical research; c) To promote students’ research at a national and an international level; d) To enhance the understanding of basic medical and allied health sciences and e) To establish a medium for the international collaborative research. This will be added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™.

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European Policy Centre (EPC) – An Independent Think Tank at the Cutting Edge of EU Affairs

June 01, 2011

European Policy Centre (EPC) – An Independent Think Tank at the Cutting Edge of EU Affairs
http://www.epc.eu/

The European Policy Centre (EPC) is an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work. The EPC works at the “cutting edge” of European and global policy-making providing its members and the wider public with rapid, high-quality information and analysis on the EU and global policy agenda. It aims to promote a balanced dialogue between the different constituencies of its membership, spanning all aspects of economic and social life. In line with its multi-constituency approach, members of the EPC comprise companies, professional and business federations, trade unions, diplomatic missions, regional and local bodies, as well as NGOs representing a broad range of civil society interests, foundations, international and religious organisations. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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African Portal – Online Knowledge Resource for Policy-Related Issues on Africa

June 01, 2011

African Portal – Online Knowledge Resource for Policy-Related Issues on Africa
http://www.africaportal.org/

The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa. An undertaking by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Makerere University (MAK), and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), the Africa Portal offers open access to a suite of features including an online library collection; a resource for opinion and analysis; an experts directory; an international events calendar; and a mobile technology component—all aimed to equip users with research and information on Africa’s current policy issues. A key feature to the Africa Portal is the online library collection holding over 3,000 books, journals, and digital documents related to African policy issues. The entire online repository is open access and available for free full-text download. A portion of the digital documents housed in the library have been digitized for the first time as an undertaking of the Africa Portal project. Facilitating new digitization projects is a core feature of the Africa Portal, which aims to improve access and visibility for African research. The Africa Portal is part of the Africa Initiative project. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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