Free and Open Access links
This page provides links to: programmes and initiatives complementary to PERii; the INASP Directory of Organisations; Open Access resources available to all; and online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries. The free and Open Access resources are sub-divided as multi-disciplinary or subject specific resources.
Library advocacy: This page contains links to information on library advocacy including webinars and presentations.
Library promotion: This page provides examples and advice for effective promotion of your library.
Online Access programmes: Information about complementary programmes to PERii, which provide online resources in a broad range of disciplines plus organisations involved in information for development.
Training activities and materials: Details of INASP training workshops and associated materials
Training Information and Guidelines: This page provides links to training resources including guidelines, ideas and methods.
Institutional Repositories
List of Institutional Repositories: This page contains resources which allow for cross-searching of collections of Institutional Repositories. An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution
Institutional Repository Registration: We recommend registering your repository. This page provides links to several registration websites.
Open Access
Readings: Resources about the Open Access movement.
Multi-disciplinary resources: Information about multi-disciplinary online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and multi-disciplinary online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Subject specific resources: Information about subject specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and subject specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.
Search engine to find free full text scientific articles in PDF Format. This simple search engine indexes more than 80 millions of free references (mostly to journal articles, theses, patents and posters).
Publishers and Organisations
INASP Directory of Organisations: Includes links to and information about organisations working in the field of information access in print, online and multi-media. Use the link on the right to search the full INASP Directory of Organisations for organisations in other information-related fields.
Publishers in PERii: Information about the publishers working with INASP to enable their online resources to be made available to researchers in developing and emerging countries, freely or with deeply discounted access
To find out about including your resource in this directory, or to make an update to an entry, please contact us via email.