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BIREMEBMJ Journals: Countries with Free Access
British Medical Journal
Directory of Open Access Journals
Ejournals and Open Access
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)
FreeMedicalJournals.com
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
Highwire: Free Access to Developing Economies
INASP: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
Indian Medlars Centre
La Santé Tropicale sur Internet
Licensing Digital Information: Developing Nations Initiatives
Medworld Research Corner: Biomedical and Clinical Journals Online
Open Access for a Global Scientific and Medical Research Community
pm2mail
Ptolemy Project
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
PubMed Central: An Archive of Life Science Journals
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO)
Listing
BIREME (Focus on Low-Income
Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
The Latin American and Caribbean Center for Information (or
BIREME as it is widely known from its previous name
'Biblioteca Regional de Medicina') is the regional centre for
technical co-operation in health sciences information. It
coordinates a network of libraries, documentation and
information centres on health-related technical and
scientific information. It is developing a virtual library
that includes full-text electronic journals from the region
(SCIELO) and is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ihome.htm
* BMJ
Journals: Countries with Free Access (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
The site contains full-text access to 25 journals published
by the BMJ Publishing Group. Access is available to 'low
income' and 'low middle income' economies as defined by the
World Bank. Via IP address, Internet links from eligible
countries automatically will have free access. http://journals.bmj.com/subscriptions/countries.shtml/
British Medical
Journal
The BMJ website provides access to the full text of the BMJ,
plus 'Collected Resources', a comprehensive collection of BMJ
articles by specialty and topic - see http://www.bmj.com/collections/.
The BMJ Publishing Group has led the way in improving access
to information for health professionals in developing
countries. The Group publishes a wide range of specialist
journals, which are available free to users in low-income
countries. http://www.bmj.com/
Directory of Open
Access Journals
This site is a listing of links to open access, fulltext,
quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Within
the ''health sciences' category, there are links to over 300
titles, all available in full text, free of charge. This
section is subdivided into specific clinical subjects and
also contains an alphabetical listing. The site is maintained
by the Lund University Libraries, Sweden. http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=20
Ejournals and Open
Access
The website contains a list of links to Internet sites that
discuss key issues of the ejournal revolution. Topics covered
include: Open Access, bridging the digital divide and
managing e-journals in libraries. The site also contains
links to a range of gateways and initiatives that offer free
access to electronic journals. It is maintained by the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, U.S. http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/
Electronic Publishing
Trust for Development (EPT) (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
EPT aims to support the electronic publication of scientific
journals published in developing countries and thus
contribute to narrowing the knowledge gap between scientists
in the developed and developing regions of the world.
http://www.epublishingtrust.org
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FreeMedicalJournals.com
(French, German, Portugese, Spanish)
The site is a comprehensive, up-to-date list of medical
journals availiable free on the Internet. The list is
organized into multiple subject categories, by alphabetical
order and by language (French, Spanish, Portuguese). The site
is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical
journals over the Internet. http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/special.htm
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Health InterNetwork Access
to Research Initiative (HINARI) (Focus on
Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
HINARI provides access to over 2800 scientific publications
for developing and transitional countries. The participating
publishers include Blackwell, BMJ, Elsevier Science,
Harcourt, JAMA, Kluwer, Nature Publishing, New England
Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Springer
Verlag, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley. The access is by
journal title, subject and language or link to the
participating publishers' websites. Also, there is access to
various publishers' reference sources including the Cochrane
Library, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, etc. The site is
accessible in English, French and Spanish. Institutions are
required to register (see: http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php
or email . For a guide using PubMed to search for journal
articles, see
http://www.who.int/hinari/training/HINARI%20Guide%20to%20Using%20PubMed.pdf.
The site includes links to other sources of free access to
ejournals and regional ejournal indexes. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
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Highwire: Free Access to
Developing Economies (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
The site contains links to free access journals published
online by HighWire Press including titles from the BMJ.
Access is for all countries that appear in the World Bank's
list of "low income economies," plus Djibouti. Individuals do
not need to register since the software automatically detects
the country you are connecting from and grants access
accordingly. http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl
INASP: Programme for
the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
(Focus on Low-Income Countries)
PERI is an INASP sponsored programme of support for
information production, access and dissemination for research
partners in developing and transitional countries utilising
new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It
provides a range of capacity building services, including
access for developing countries to a wide range of major
scientific, technical, medical, social science and humanities
materials. The site describes the programme, and details of
materials available to eligible countries and is available in
English, French, Spanish and Russian. Institutions are
required to register for access. http://www.inasp.info/file/104/peri.html
Indian Medlars
Centre (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site provides access to IndMED, a bibliographic database
of 75 Indian biomedical journals, and MedIND, a portal that contains
links to fulltext articles in 38 journals indexed in IndMED.
It also includes a database of journal holdings of major
medical libraries in India, links to relevant websites and a
mirror site for access to MEDLINE databases on the Indian
sub-continent. http://indmed.nic.in/
La
Santé Tropicale
sur Internet (Focus on Low-Income
Countries) (French only)
This is a French-language site, run by a France-based
publisher NG Com Santé Tropicale. The site is dedicated to health
issues in francophone Africa and Maghreb. It provides access
to pdf files of 1800 African medical articles from three of
its journals: Médecine d'Afrique Noire, Médecine du Maghreb, and
Odontologie-Stomatologie Tropicale. The site includes an
email discussion forum and links to other francophone African
health web sites. http://www.santetropicale.com/
Licensing Digital
Information: Developing Nations Initiatives
(Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site identifies programmes that bring high quality,
peer-reviewed sciences journals to developing and
transitional countries for free or minimal cost. It is
organized alphabetically by publisher/organization with links
to information on access procedures. The site is maintained
by Yale University Library, U.S. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml
Medworld
Research Corner: Biomedical and Clinical Journals
Online
This is a comprehensive list of medical journals on the
Internet. There is a brief description and link to each
journal. The site is maintained by Stanford University, U.S.
http://med.stanford.edu/medworld/research_journals.html
Open
Access for a Global Scientific and Medical Research
Community (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
Developed by BioMed Central, this site emphasizes the
benefits to the developing world of increased Internet
technologies and open access to research. The site contains
subject based gateways (ie. Infectious diseases, global
health, cancer) to open access articles published in BioMed
Central journals plus a keyword search engine, stories from
developing country authors and links to related sites.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/
pm2mail
(Focus on Low-Income Countries)
pm2mail (PUBMED-TO-EMAIL) is a free software that allows
email access to PUBMED and to full-text articles of
scientific and medical journals indexed by Medline. This is a
useful tool for all professionals with slow access to the
Internet. It can also be used to access articles via HINARI.
Users that have questions about the program and use for
access to HINARI or want to download it should contact Kurt
Brauchli, Department of Pathology, University of Basel,
Switzerland, the developer of the program. http://www.nongnu.org/pm2mail/index.html
Ptolemy
Project (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This project provides access to popular, full-text medical
journals, indexes and other health information resources
located within the University of Toronto Library. These
resources are available, on request, to medical researchers
and physicians in developing countries, provided that the
users agree to certain criteria (eg non-profit use only). The
project hopes to widen the network to permit access for
libraries and other organizations in developing countries.
http://www.ptolemy.ca/
Public Library of
Science (PLOS)
PLOS is a non-profit organization of scientists and
physicians. Its aim is to make the world's scientific
publications and medical literature a public resource, freely
available to all. This endeavor is planning to be a
repository of 'open access' ejournals and began publication
with the October 2003 PLOS Biology. The program is based in
San Francisco, U.S. http://www.plos.org/
PubMed Central: An
Archive of Life Science Journals
This digital archive provides free and unrestricted access to
full-text journal articles. The site includes an author and
journal title search engine. It is managed by the Center for
Biotechnology Information and the National Library of
Medicine, U.S. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Scientific
Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) (Focus on
Low-Income Countries) (Portugese, Spanish)
This site contains full-text electronic journals from the
Latin American and Caribbean region. Some of the journals are
in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. Access is by country,
title, subject and author. The site is maintained by BIREME.
http://www.scielo.org/
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Updated: 16 February 2008