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Initiatives to Provide Free Access to Scientific Publications

	Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture Register (AGORA). The AGORA site provides access to 747 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries.
	Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and more to come, BI provides a unique service by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community worldwide.
	Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals.
	The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) Programme is geared to facilitate free access to current scientific literature. The goal is to distribute individual scientific articles via email to scientists in institutions in Third World countries that do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet in a timely manner and/or cannot afford the connection. Providing scientists with current literature will support their ongoing research.
FreeForAll	FreeForAll is an international collaboration of libraries that provides free journal articles to patrons and librarians in developing and less-developed nations. Users in the targeted regions may request up to five articles per week. The instructions for registering and ordering articles through PubMed may be found online at: http://snipurl.com/evjx, or you can contact laurelkgraham [at] gmail.com for more information. [Source: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications; http://www.inasp.info].
The GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service	Global Development Network/ British Library of Development Studies (GDN/BLDS) Document Delivery Service. The GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service allows you to search the huge BLDS online catalogue of development related resources from your desktop, then request copies of articles you and your research colleagues need at the click of a button
	HighWire Press Free Online Full-text Articles (List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 11/21/05, they are assisting in the online publication of 1,076,277 free full-text articles and 2,870,956 total articles. There are 15 sites with free trial periods, and 30 completely free sites. 204 sites have free back issues, and 779 sites have pay per view.
	The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature, providing free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Local, not-for-profit institutions in two groups of countries may register for access to the journals through HINARI. Over 3070 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, which are based on GNP per capita. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita below $1000 are eligible for free access. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita between $1000-$3000 pay a fee of $1000 per year / institution.
	International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)/Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). This network provides access to scientific and scholarly information through electronic means. It includes more than 10,700 full-text online journals, current awareness databases, and document delivery of major scientific, technical, medical, social science, and humanities materials from a wide range of sources.
	Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others.
	SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science".
	The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) has been called a "Library in a Box" because it arrives in a box, contains a comprehensive collection of current journals, and provides a complex bibliographic search engine. Available only to developing countries, this library is updated annually. The "classic" compact disc version (CD-ROM) contains over 140 journals selected by 600 international scientists as the most essential to research and education in the developing world. The new local area network version, "LanTEEAL," contains 115 of the TEEAL journals. To date, TEEAL includes the complete text and images from the 1993-2003 editions of the journals included in it--over 2.2 million pages compressed onto 426 compact discs, or 1.8 million in LanTEEAL. Annual updates are released one year following the original year of publication.