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FOUR50 is building a network of experts, activists and enthusiasts committed to preventing the epidemic of chronic disease and raising awareness about its devastating consequences. It aims to do this by focusing on the 3 risk factors (poor diet, lack of physical activity, tobacco use) that lead to four chronic diseases (CVD, diabetes, chronic lung diseases and some cancers) contributing to more than 50% of deaths worldwide.
Launched in 2003, AGORA provides free or subsidised journal access to not-for-profit institutions in eligible countries. Once details are finalised, all institutions in countries with a GNP per capita under US$1,000 will be given access to participating literature. The journal collection focuses on agriculture and related sciences, and includes titles from major publishing houses. AGORA is an FAO initiative.
Click here for more details about registering.
The African Journal of Biotechnology is a peer-reviewed online journal that publishes research in food, agricultural and industrial applications of biochemistry, microbiology, genomics and proteomics.
All articles are free to access and readers can also sign up to free email alerts containing the table of contents for each new issue.
AJFAND is an academic journal — published quarterly — by the Rural Outreach Programme, a non-profit company based in Kenya. The journal's free-access website features peer-reviewed articles about poverty, food security, disease and agriculture in Africa. It also provides commentaries, short communications, book reviews, and relevant news and events. Students can submit work to the student section.
AJOL is an online database of more than 50 African science journals. Run by
INASP, it provides access to tables of contents and, when available, abstracts and links to full text articles. It also offers a photocopy document delivery service for all of its listed titles. Users must register (free).
This HIV/AIDS web portal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science) ceased operating in December 2003, but remains an important archive of documents relating to AIDS prevention, treatment and vaccine development. The
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative has taken over the role of reviewing and highlighting recently published scientific literature.
An 'Internet press centre' for news about European science, technology and medicine, AlphaGailileo carries press releases from a range of European research institutes. The site is intended primarily for journalists - who can access embargoed information before it is released publicly, as well as a directory of science experts.
arXiv is an open-access repository of physics papers. It was launched as an experiment in 1991 by physicist Paul Ginsparg. Physicists have always exchanged pre-prints of their research. Ginsparg designed a piece of software that would allow the community to pool and search these papers. arXiv is now one of the primary sources of literature for physicists.
This is a virtual library of Latin American social science papers maintained by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). It provides open and free access to more than 4,000 full-text books, periodical articles and other documents, in Spanish.
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service that provides access to research journals published in developing countries. The website features a growing number of
peer-reviewed journals, and provides a range of other material of interest to bioscientists (reports, books, technical documents, conference proceedings and newsletters). Bioline International is a joint initiative of the
University of Toronto Libraries, Canada, the
Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil and Bioline/UK.
BMC is an open-access publishing house, and is part of Current Science Group. It publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed
open-access journals, such as the Journal of Biology. Instead of being based on subscriptions it operates an article-processing charge. To view BMC's Open access charter,
click here.
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer reviewed biomedical research. This site provides links to BMC's articles on medical ethics, some of which relate to developing countries (prospective authors can submit their articles for peer review and publication). Other relevant journals on the site include BMC International Health and Human Rights and the International Journal for Equity in Health. One
linked site, provided by the West African Doctor's network, allows researchers in developing countries to conduct searches of PUBMED via email.
The BMJ is a weekly journal providing original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. Access to the online version of the journal – which seeks to be at the forefront of the international debate on health – is free.
BOAI aims to speed progress in making research articles from all academic fields freely available on the Internet. It recommends two complementary strategies: self-archiving, whereby scholars deposit refereed journal articles in electronic archives; and open-access journals. The initiative was launched in 2002 following a meeting in Budapest held by the Open Society Institute, part of the Soros Foundation. The meeting also resulted in a declaration that is still inviting signatures from those wishing to pledge their support to the open access movement.
CABI is a not-for-profit, intergovernmental organisation specialising in agricultural and environmental research, publishing and communication. With over 40 different member countries, its scientific projects include finding ways to lower production costs while using ecological practices. CABI studies environmental impacts of invasive species and pests, and searches for natural ways of controlling them. CABI also finds solutions to agricultural problems caused by climate change, provides microbial services and advises on trade policy.
This is a portal to the websites of associations that aim to advance our understanding of oncology and how to better treat patients with cancer, both in the developed and developing worlds.
Each partner association is represented in the portal with a website describing and providing information relating to the organisation, its structure, news, research projects, activities, membership, resource information, selected links, and so on.
Cancerworld also hosts the Cancer Media Service, operated by the European School of Oncology and aimed at journalists. The independent service aims to put cancer research into context, which it does by publishing well written and easy-to-read summaries of the latest cancer research. Perhaps even more useful is its list of resources for journalists that includes links to several medical dictionaries and cancer organisations worldwide.
The CGVLibrary — run by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) — is a search engine for agricultural information. It has an easy-to-use interface for accessing documents and abstracts in all of the CGIAR centres' libraries, as well as 160 other databases. Subscribers also have access to an image library.
DOAJ is a directory of open-access research journals, and was launched by Lund University, Sweden in May 2003. In order to be listed, journals must fit certain criteria, for instance, they must be peer-reviewed, or subject to an equivalent form of quality control. To read more about the selection criteria,
click here. DOAJ is currently developing a searchable index of participating journal papers.
DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats. Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP), it is freely available to research institutions worldwide as an open-source system that can be customised and extended. DSpace software manages and distributes digital items, made up of digital files (or bitstreams) and allows the creation, indexing, and searching of associated metadata to locate and retrieve the items.
E-BioSci is a "platform for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences" run by the
European Molecular Biology Organisation. As well as networking online journals, it also provides access to life science databases, such as those with genomic data. The finished product is still in development, but a prototype is already available.
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