Open Access Arrangements for Developing Countries

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General Works

Anunobi, Chinwe V., and Ifeyinwa B. Okoye. "The Role of Academic Libraries in Universal Access to Print and Electronic Resources in the Developing Countries." Library Philosophy and Practice - Electronic Journal. May 2008. Digital Commons @ UNL. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/189/

Arunachalam, Subbiah. "India's March towards Open Access." SciDev.Net, 5 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3&itemid=243&language=1&qguideid=4

———. "Information for Research in Developing Countries: Information Technology—Friend or Foe?" Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 29, no. 5 (2003): 16-21. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-03/Arunachalam.pdf

Chan, Leslie, and Barbara Kirsop. "Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge." Ariadne, no. 30 (2001). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/oai-chan/

Chan, Leslie, Barbara Kirsop and Subbiah Arunachalam. "Open Access Archiving: The Fast Track to Building Research Capacity in Developing Countries." SciDev.Net, 11 February 2005. http://www.scidev.net/en/features/open-access-archiving-the-fast-track-to-building-r.html

Dennis, Alasia D. "The Impact of the Open Access Movement on Medical Based Scholarly Publishing in Nigeria." First Monday 12, no. 10 (2007). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1957/1834

Dickson, David. "Developing-Country Researchers Get 'Open Access' Boost." SciDev.Net, 29 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1294&language=1

Doyle, Helen J. "Open Access Can Shrink the Global Knowledge Gap." SciDev.Net, 5 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3&itemid=244&language=1&qguideid=4

Jung, Insung. "Changing Faces of Open and Distance Learning in Asia." International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 8, no. 1 (2007). Athabasca University. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/418/773

Fung, Isaac. "Open access for the non-English-speaking world: overcoming the language barrier." Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 5, no. 1 (2008). http://www.ete-online.com/content/5/1/1

Gaikwad, Jitendra and Vishwas Chavan. "Open Access and Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges and Potentials for the Developing World". Data Science Journal 5, 05 June 2006. http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/5/0/1/_pdf

"Grants Program Supports Open Access Publishing in Developing Countries." Open Access Now, 10 May 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=16#news2

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. E-Journals: Developing Country Access Survey. Oxford, UK: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 2003. http://www.inasp.info/pubs/survey.html

Karim, Salim S. Abdool. "Creating Equal Access to Scientific Information." SciDev.Net, 28 March 2003. http://www.scidev.net/Opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readOpinions&itemid=122&language=1

Kirsop, Barbara, Subbiah Arunachalam and Leslie Chan. "Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries". Ariadne, 52, July 2007. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue52/kirsop-et-al/

Mantell, Katie. "'Self-Archiving' Urged for Developing-World Scientists." SciDev.Net, 5 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1261&language=1

Mujoo-Munshi, Usha. "INSA E-Journals Project (e-journals@insa)." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 1 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/01inbrief.html#MUJOO-MUNSHI

Papin-Ramcharan, Jennifer I., and Richard A. Dawe. "Open Access Publishing: A Developing Country View." First Monday 11, no. 6 (2006). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1332/1252

Ramachandran, P. V., and Vinod Scaria. "Open Access Publishing in the Developing World: Making a Difference." Journal of Orthopaedics 1, no. 1 (Article e1 2004). http://www.jortho.org/2004/1/1/e1/index.htm

Reynolds, Fiona, and Richard F. Heller. "Peoples-uni: Developing public health competences - Lessons from a pilot course module." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 3, (2008): 60-65. http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/548/505 (Free registration required)

"Round Table: Open Access Issues for Developing Countries." Information Services & Use 23, no. 2/3 (2003): 149-159.

Scaria, Vinod. "Open, Online and Global: Benefits of BioMedical Journals Going Online and Open." The Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences 2, no. 4 (2003). http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00003491/01/2003-4-1.pdf

———. "Scholarly Communication in Biomedical Sciences, Open Access and the Developing World." Internet Health 1, no. 1 (2003). http://www.virtualmed.netfirms.com/internethealth/articleapril03.html

Smart, Pippa. "Two-Way Traffic: Information Exchange between the Developing and Developed World." Serials 17, no. 2 (2004): 183-187.

Stacey, Paul. "Open Educational Resources in a Global Context." First Monday 12, no. 4 (2007). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1769/1649

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Subbiah Arunachalam. "Open Access in the Developing World." Open Access Now, 15 December 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=11

Wang,Xuemao, and Chang Su. "Open Access-Philosophy, Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study." (2006). http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/157-Wang_Su-en.pdf

Free or Reduced Cost Access

AGORA

Alvestrand, Viveka. "Free Online Access to Fight Hunger." Information World Review, 1 November 2003. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1150770

Choi, Charles Q. "Ag-Science Marketplace Opens." The Scientist, 28 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031028/05

Dickson, David. "Poor Countries Get Low-Cost Access to Science Journals." SciDev.Net, 14 October 2003. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1055&language=1

Editorial. "New Access for Agriculture." Nature, 23 October 2003, 749.

HINARI

Aronson, Barbara. "Improving Online Access to Medical Information for Low-Income Countries." The New England Journal of Medicine 350, no. 10 (2004): 966-968. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/350/10/966?ijkey=1srD5hGVQuLS2&keytype=ref&siteid=nejm

Editorial. "Developing Open Access." Nature Cell Biology 5, no. 12 (2003): 1027.

Hobson, J., and Mandy Sketch. "Online Access to Occupational Medicine for Developing Countries." Occupational Medicine 52, no. 4 (2002): 173-174. http://occmed.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/52/4/173

Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal. "HINARI: Bridging the Global Information Divide." BMJ, 15 May 2004, 1190-1193. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7449/1190

Kmietowicz, Zosia. "Deal Allows Developing Countries Free Access to Journals." BMJ, 14 July 2001, 65. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7304/65?ijkey=a7cd606a91d55b0e4265f697a198955eaeeeed36&
keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

Long, Maurice. "Bridging the Knowledge Gap—”The HINARI Programme." The Biochemist 25, no. 6 (2003): 27-29.

Malakoff, David. "Journals Offered Free to Poorest Nations." Science Magazine, 13 July 2001, 189-190.

Sarin, R. "Denying open access to published health-care research: WHO has the password?" Journal of Cancer Research and Theraputics 3, no. 3 (2007):133-4. http://www.cancerjournal.net/text.asp?2007/3/3/133/37403

Smith, Richard. "Closing the Digital Divide." BMJ, 1 February 2003, 238. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/238

Suber, Peter. "Introduction to HINARI." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 25 February 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-25-02.htm

Williamson, A., and J. Mayberry. "Getting Our Journals to Developing Countries." Postgraduate Medical Journal 77 (September 2001): 554-555. http://pmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/77/911/554

Other

Beveridge, Massey, Andrew Howard, Kirsteen Burton, and Warren Holder. "The Ptolemy Project: A Scalable Model for Delivering Health Information in Africa." BMJ, 4 October 2003. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7418/790

Bolman, Pieter. "Online Journals in the Developing World—Vendor View." Information World Review, 1 October 2001. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1150725

Bonora, Loriano. "The Evolution of Scientific Publishing and the JHEP Model." JCOM: Journal of Science Communication 2, no. 4 (2003). http://jcom.sissa.it/focus/foc020402.html

Canhos, Vanderlei, Leslie Chan, and Barbara Kirsop. "Bioline Publications: How Its Evolution Has Mirrored the Growth of the Internet." Learned Publishing 14, no. 1 (2001): 41-48. http://oberon.ingentaselect.com/vl=530900/cl=75/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v14n1/s7/p41

Cerdeira, Hilda, Enrique Canessa, Carlo Fonda, Abdus Salam, and R. Les Cottrell. "Developing Countries and the Global Science Web." CERN Courier 43, no. 10 (2003). http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/43/10/18

Durrant, Sarah. "Online Resources Available through PERI." INASP Newsletter, no. 21 (2002). http://www.inasp.org.uk/newslet/oct02.html#4

Fernandez, Leila. "Open Access Initiatives in India--an Evaluation." Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 1, no. 1 (2006), http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/110/172 (accessed November 18, 2008).

Godlee, Fiona, Richard Horton, and Richard Smith. "Global Information Flow." BMJ, 30 September 2000, 776-777. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7264/776?ijkey=fd4f6e31c234715235965a31582a9083e28ee11c&

Mantell, Katie. "Africa 'Needs Better Information about Access Deals.'" SciDev.Net, 5 December 2003. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1136&language=1

———. "Scientists in the Developing World Gain Cut-Price Access to Journals." SciDev.Net, 8 October 2001. http://www.scidev.net/Features/index.cfm?fuseaction=readFeatures&itemid=4&language=1

Martey, Alfred K. "PERI in Ghana." INASP Newsletter, no. 19 (2002). http://www.inasp.org.uk/newslet/feb02.html#3

Ochs, Mary, Barbara Aronson, and Jane Wu. "HINARI and AGORA: Revolutionizing Access to Scientific Information in the Developing World." Serials 17, no. 2 (2004): 175-182.

Rebêlo, Paulo, and Katie Mantell. "Brazil Secures Cheaper Access to Scientific Journals." SciDev.Net, 30 January 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1213&language=1

Smart, Pippa. "E-Journals: Developing Country Access Survey." Learned Publishing 16, no. 2 (2003): 143-148. http://konstanza.ingentaselect.com/vl=2985158/cl=27/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v16n2/s11/p143

———. "E-Journals: Developing Country Access Survey." International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications Newsletter, no. 22 (2003). http://www.inasp.org.uk/newslet/feb03.html#14

Smith, Richard, and Alex Williamson. "BMJ Journals Free to the Developing World." BMJ, 16 February 2002, 380. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7334/380

Suber, Peter. "Two Open-Access Initiatives for Developing Countries." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 67 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#agora-ptolemy

Tola, Elisabetta. "Hinari and Agora: Free Access to Scientific Information for Poor Countries." JCOM: Journal of Science Communication 2, no. 4 (2003). http://jcom.sissa.it/focus/foc020403.html

Were, Jacinta. "The Programme for Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)." INASP Newsletter, no. 19 (2002). http://www.inasp.org.uk/newslet/feb02.html#2

SciELO

Alonso, Wladimir J., and Esteban Fernández-Juricic. "Regional Network Raises Profile of Local Journals." Nature, 31 January 2002, 471-472.

Dickson, David. "Thumbs Up for Electronic Publication." SciDev.Net, 4 February 2002. http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=23&language=1

Marcondes, Carlos Henrique, and Luis Fernando Sayao. "The SciELO Brazilian Scientific Journal Gateway and Open Archives: A Report on the Development of the SciELO-Open Archives Data Provider Server." D-LIB Magazine 9, no. 3 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march03/marcondes/03marcondes.html

Packer, Abel L. "SciELO—A Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries." D-Lib Magazine 6, no. 10 (2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/10inbrief.html#PACKER

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