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INTERNATIONAL E-PUBLISHING RESOURCES

International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA)
http://www.curl.bham.ac.uk/
6oo research libraries working together to support equitable access to scholarly literature. Will take united action to create appropriate policies.

SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.sparc.org/
American Research Libraries initiative to support reforms to scholarly publishing and reducing price barriers.

Bellagio Publishing Network
http://www.bellagiopublishingnetwork.org/
The Bellagio Publishing Network is an international solidarity network for publishing and book development in the south. For over a decade, the Network has been recognised as a key information and knowledge provider, an enabling collaborative network, and a forum for discussion on issues of indigenous publishing, with special emphasis on Africa and the Caribbean.

BioMedCentral
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BMC is an Open Access publisher providing over 100 fully peer-reviewed journals. A handling charge of $500/article is made to authors (except those from the developing world and some other authors for whom the charge is waived). All access is free of charge. Institutional archiving is encouraged.

British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/
Full text of all papers is no longer free to al, though some material remains free for some people. See this link for information on future distribution policy.

Highwire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Host for a large number of journals, many of which have open access policies

Los Alamos Preprint Archive (arXive)
http://www.arxive.org/
Original e-print server for physics

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www plos.org
A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.Publishes a series of open access bioscience journals.

PubMedCentral
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
Publishers deposit material for free access after a period determined by each publisher (typically 0-2 months currently). Full text may also be read from publisher's site instead of from PMC, but full text also on PMC for searching purposes.

The Lancet Electronic Research Archive (ERA)
http://clinmed.netprints.org/
Freely available reviewed papers of special interest to developing countries.

Non-Profit publishers/Distributors of Developing Country Journals and information

African Journals Online
http://www.ajol.info
Provides titles and abstracts of African journals and full text on request.
Provides support to facilitate distribution of commercial journals to developing countries

Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br/
Hosts developing country journals, many of which now available on open access basis. Supports the e-publishing of journals currently not online.A non-profit partnership between the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Centro do Referençia em Informação Ambiental (CRIA), Brazil. Also hosts the eprints archive at http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/

HINARI (Health Internet), OARE (Environment), AGORA (Agriculture)
HINARI - UN/WHO initiative to provide commercial medical journals free to licensed countries in the poorest regions of the developing world, http://www.healthinternetwork.org/.
OARE - UNEP initative to provide environmental journals on a similar basis http://www.oaresciences.org/en/.
AGORA - FAO initiative to provide agricultrual journals on a similar basis http://aginternetwork.org/en/.

MedKnow Publications
http://www.medknow.com
Publishers of peer reviewed, open access, scholarly, bio-medical journals, provides publishing services to learned societies and associations. Based in Mumbai, India.

PERI
http://www.inasp.info/peri/index.html
Programme to facilitate access to international journals to the poorest regions of the world and to provide training and support in using and creating information.

SciELO
http://www.scielo.org/
Hosts journals published in Latin American countries, mainly Brazil. No charge for access at present.

Free Online Scholarship FOS Newsletter NOW at SPARC Open Access Newsletter
www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html
Provides regular news about e-publishing and Open Access developments.

Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)
http://www.epublishingtrust.org/
Supports publication of journals generated in developing countries.
Supports open access to world's literature. Provides advocacy, information, links, articles etc

International Network for the Availability of Scholarly Publishing (INASP)
http://www.inasp.org/
Supports print and electronic publishing (journals, books etc) for developing countries in many ways. Workshops, links....

HIF-NET at WHO (Health Information Network
INASP_Health@compuserve.com
Runs regular meetings for health information workers. Based in UK, run by INASP, partnership with WHO. Also runs an active online listserv on all aspects of health information.