The activities of the EPT have developed over the years from partnerships
established between Bioline International
in Canada, the Centro do Referençia em Informação Ambiental
(CRIA ) in Brazil and the collaborating
publishers of the journals. Now, >60 journals and special publications,
published in developing countries are available from www.bioline.org.br
and are listed below. Those with an asterisk are also available from the University
of Toronto's eprints server at eprints.utsc.utoronto.ca,
or via the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) maintained by the University
of Lund and online at www.doaj.org.
Full text of all issues are available to readers free of charge, together with information on the journals, their instructions for authors and a table of issues now online. Additionally, Bioline International provides regular up-dates about the existing journals and new collaborating publishers through its e-pub newsletter (www.bioline.org.br/mailman/listinfo/bioline-l).
There are no charges made to publishers for formatting material and using the Bioline International system. Publishers are provided with monthly usage statistics.
This is a very important service for science in the developing world as it not only raises awareness of the research from these countries, but also transfers e-publishing technology to the publishers and ensures they are informed about the Open Access movement and its impact on the visibility of science in their countries (see Links page www.epublishingtrust.org/page7.htm for further information).
Journals
Special
Publications
Bioline International contributes the system (Web Site, software, administrative management, user support, promotion, statistical analysis), formatting and training to the above projects. Publishers wishing to discuss possible collaboration with Bioline International should contact bioline.international@utoronto.ca.