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Organizations engaged in several initiatives for funding and promoting dissemination of knowledge, in particular access to scientific resources. Visit http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ for overview material appropriate as a starting point to learn about open access, but keep in mind this generality: "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions."
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AGORA - Provides access to over 500 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.
http://www.aginternetwork.org/ |
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Book Aid International - Provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools in order to support literacy, education, training and publishing in over 40 countries around the world. Concentrates over 85% of its resources on 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.bookaid.org/ |
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Center for the Public Domain - A philanthropic organization funding projects (grant making, original research, conferences, and collaborative programs) to enhance American public domain, including free digital content and efforts to counteract recent trends in copyright and patent law.
http://www.centerpd.org/ |
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Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - Provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit institutions in developing countries.
http://www.healthinternetwork.org/ |
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International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP) - Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content. Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of free scholarly journals and resources.
http://www.icaap.org/ |
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International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) - Assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
http://www.iicd.org/ |
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James Burke's Knowledge Web - Digital incrarnation of the James Burke's television programs. Visitors can create their own pathways through history, contribute content and investigate virtual reality learning spaces.
http://www.k-web.org/ |
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Open Society Institute - OSI. Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform.
http://www.soros.org/ |
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The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) - A full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, as listed in the World Bank's World Development Report.
http://www.teeal.org/ |
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