INASP Directory of Resources: Complementary

This page contains information about complementary programmes which provide online resources for online peer-reviewed information in a broad range of disciplines plus organisations involved in information for development.

COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMMES TO PERI

AGORA Free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences for public academic institutions in developing countries.

eIFL eIFL.net is an independent foundation that strives to lead, negotiate, support and advocate for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transition and developing countries. Its main focus is on negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, while supporting the enhancement of emerging national library consortia in member countries.

HINARI Phase 1: Free access to 2300 biomedical and related social sciences journals and other resources for health sector and academic institutions in 120 developing countries

OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) : Free access for developing countries to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others.

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.

WorldWideScience.org provides one-stop searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. This enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 52 countries. Users can search more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines. Some of the resources that you will be cross searching via WorldWideScience are DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) (which includes 3,622 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. 1,251 journals are available in full text) and all the journals INASP’s JOL programme (African Journals Online, Bangladesh Journals Online, Nepal Journals Online, Philippine Journals Online, Vietnam Journals Online