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Publishers

African Journals Online (AJOL) Abstracts of over 250 African-published journals, with access to some full text online, and a document delivery service.
American Institute of Physics AIP publishes 12 journals, 2 magazines, and a conference proceedings series. AIP’s Scitation platform hosts over 1.5 million articles from more than 185 scholarly publications for 30 learned society publishers.
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) ASABE Technical Library includes a range of content including journals, textbook materials, monographs, standards and proceedings as well as the important reference work-in-progress, Design Topics.
American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE Journals Online provides access to 30 journals encompassing more than 18,500 full-text papers published since 1995. Approximately 1500 new papers will be added each year.
Annual Reviews Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.
Beech Tree Publishing Access to two international, peer-reviewed academic journals
British Library Direct British Library Direct offers pay-as-you-go access to articles from the top 20,000 international research journals
Cambridge University Press Over 200 leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities.
Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
EBSCO Host Research Databases Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles, including access to 8 major databases.
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd Emerald Management Xtra features 50 full text journals and reviews from the world’s top 300 management journals. This is coupled with online support for librarians, students, faculty, researchers.
Gale Cengage Learning: Expanded Academic and Health & Wellness Resource Center Expanded Academic and Health and Wellness Resource Center
Geological Society The Lyell Collection is an electronic collection of new and archival journal, Special Publication and book content, published by the Geological Society of London. It contains key peer-reviewed Earth science literature of the highest quality
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) The IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature
Institution of Chemical Engineers IChemE Full access to current and back-issues of the six leading chemical engineering serial publications, published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the hub for chemical, biochemical and process engineering professionals worldwide.
International Forestry Review The International Forestry Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers, research notes and book reviews on all aspects of forestry and forest research. It is published four times per year. Themed editions are a regular feature and attract a wide audience.
IOP Publishing IOP Publishing publishes over 50 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences, all available online through our Electronic Journals service.
JSTOR JSTOR gives access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 600 important scholarly journals in 42 disciplines
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has generously offered free electronic access to all journal titles. The publisher is keen for research colleagues in developing nations to evaluate its publications for future collection development
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland Database containing over 120,000 abstracts relating to the earth sciences, mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, economic geology, gemmology, extraterrestrial mineralogy, environmental science and nano-particle science.
National Academies Press The National Academies Press (NAP) allows readers in most developing countries to obtain Academies reports free from the NAP Web site in portable document format (PDF). The National Academies are private, nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes over 30 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.
NRC Research Press Full text of 16 online journals with back files dating back to 2001 in most cases
OSA - Optical Society of America 12 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected OSA meeting content
OUP E-books Oxford Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 920 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Oxford Journals OUP Over 160 leading titles in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of 30 peer-reviewed e-journals
Royal Society Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest-running continuously published journal in the world.
Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Archive Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004
Sage Publications Country-wide access to over 450 journals in the humanities, for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries
Springer eJournals Springer offers access to 1075 journals covering a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics.
Symposium Journals Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals
University of California Press Access to 8 Journals of the University of California Press
University of Chicago Press Journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields
Wiley-Blackwell - InterScience Content Wiley InterScience is a dynamic online content service containing the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals and The Cochrane Library - the world's best single source of evidence about the effects of healthcare.
Wiley-Blackwell - Synergy content Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences
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Projects & Activities

INASP Directory of Resources The INASP Directory of Resources contains information and links to complementary programmes to PERI, online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) AJOL is a website hosting over 250 African-published journals
African Journals Online Publishing Project (AJOPP) This project supported 8 African journals to publish online to evaluate the impact of online presence on commercial hosts
Electronic Library Information Navigator (ELIN@) introductory text about ELIN
Journals OnLine (JOL) Projects We provide advice to journals wishing to publish online, including published resource guides and links to suitable technologies and hosting organisations.
PERI (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information) A programme to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and emerging countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information and knowledge.
PERI: Access to Journals and Research Content As part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) this project provides researchers with access to international scholarly literature based on electronic delivery.
PERI: Country Collaboration and Networking As part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) we operate a range of activities to promote and support country networking.
PERI: ICT and E-resource Management Training As part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) we provide support to develop and enhance ICT skills and implementation through a variety of training courses and other resources.
PERI: Research and Development As part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI), we undertake research projects to investigate new methodologies for accessing, managing, and using information, and methods of improving existing systems.
PERI: Strengthening National Research Publications Within PERI this project assists national academic publishers
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Publications

African Journals Online Publishing Programme (AJOPP) Report This report was produced to evaluate the success of this programme of support for African publishers to put their full text online. (2006)
Getting Started in Electronic Publishing By Sally Morris. 5th edn. A guide to the advantages and disadvantages of launching new electronic publishing projects. (2005)
Reader Development and Reading Promotion: Recent experiences from seven countries in Africa Edited by Diana Rosenberg. This book presents 10 case studies of reader development activities within Africa. In print only. (2003)
Towards the Digital Library This report presents the results of a survey of the current status of digital libraries in sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa, so as to draw conclusions on where future developments and investments might be made, and what can be learnt from the implementation of digital libraries within the continent. (2005)
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Events

Curriculum Development Workshop A workshop organised to produce a revised outline for the proposed new Masters programme in Records and Archives Management (RM) at the East African School of Librarianship and Information Science (EASLIS) at Makerere University, Uganda.
Development of AHILA Strategy Workshop This regional workshop was held in Mozambique in October 2008 and included representatives from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo Brazzaville, Ethiopia Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and UK.
INASP Publishing Workshops We run workshops for journal editors and publishers on a wide variety of publishing topics: our materials are free to download and re-use.
Information Literacy Workshop The Library Development Programme sponsored ten librarians to attend the recent Unesco Training the Trainers in Information Literacy workshop, held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2008.
Institutional Repository workshop / Dspace The Library Development Programme sponsored 6 librarians to attend a workshop at the University of Pretoria.
Journal Sustainability and Business Operations Workshop, Malawi, 2007 This workshop was organised in collaboration with the Malawi Medical Journal, WHO special program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Forum for African Medical Editors (FAME) and Africa Health Journals Partnership Project (funded by the US National Institutes of Health with support from the Council of Science Editors).
Training Workshop on the Use of Koha A training workshop on the use of Koha, one of the new generation of open source library management systems, was delivered at the Parliament of Uganda Library, October 20 – 28 2008.
Uganda Workshops Please go to this page to find out more about recent INASP training workshops held in Uganda
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Country Contacts

INASP is represented in your country by the following people:

Ms Faith Akiteng,

Periodicals Librarian , Makerere University Library

P.O. Box 7062

Kampala

Uganda

Tel: 256 414 531041

Fax: 256 414 540374

Email: faitha@mulib.mak.ac.ug, fakiteng26@yahoo.co.uk

Notes: Faith Akiteng is the Country Coordinator for Uganda

Mr Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya,

Reference and Circulation Librarian , Makerere University Library

P.O.Box 7062

Kampala

Uganda

Tel: 256 414 531041

Fax: 256 414 540374

Email: flugya@mulib.mak.ac.ug

Notes: Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya ia the Deputy Country Coordinator for Uganda

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