ISRIC World Soil Information has a mandate to serve the international community as custodian of global soil information and to increase awareness and understanding of the role soils in major global issues. To adapt to the current demand for soil information, ISRIC is updating its enterprise data management system, including procedures for registering acquired data such as lineage, versioning, q...

The International Union of Psychological Science is an organization composed of National Member organizations (national societies / associations / committees of scientific psychology, national academies of science, or similar organizations), comprising not more than one National Member per country. Eleven charter Members founded IUPsyS in 1951. At December 31, 2005 the number of National Member...

The nonavailability of low-cost, simple and reliable equipment which is easy to fabricate and easy to maintain is one of the major obstacles for improving science teaching in developing countries. In this context, UNESCO in association with the Committee on Teaching of Chemistry (CTC) of IUPAC and the erstwhile Committee on Teaching of Science (CTS) of ICSU initiated a Project Locally Produced ...

The Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC), which was initiated in 1997 at the request of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Steering Committee, responds to a need identified by the global climate observing community for easier and more effective access to observational climate data and information. GOSIC manages an online portal providing an entry point for users of climat...

Eva Verona (1905-1996), In Memoriam by Aleksandra Horvat Patricia B. Yocum. Libraries and the Electronic Journal in Science Patricia B. Yocum. Electronic Publishing in Science: Report of the Expert Meeting Sponsored by UNESCO and ICSU Press, 19-23 February 1996 Abdus Sattar Chaudhry. Exploiting Network Information Resources for Collection Development in Libraries Brian McMahon. Electronic Publi...