- Bioline International
A not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal is to reduce the South to North knowledge gap in global health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. Includes peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
- Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It has a category for Health Sciences, which includes public health and OB/GYN (under Medicine). Also has a keyword search feature.
- Free Medical Journals Online
A site devoted to promoting free access to medical journals on-line. Also provides access to the AMEDEO abstracting service, which scans selected journals for articles on a range of medical topics, and sends an e-mail summary with links to abstracts.
- HighWire
Browse the full text of back issues from 346 journals hosted by HighWire.
- HINARI: Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
HINARI provides institutions in developing countries with free or low cost online access to major journals in biomedical and related social sciences. Institutions must be academic, research or government institutions. Full text articles are available from over 2000 journals. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita below $1000 are eligible for free access. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita between $1000-$3000 pay a fee of $1000 per year/institution. List of countries in each category.
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- Oxford Journals Developing Country Offer
The Developing Countries Oxford Online Collection is available to not-for-profit organizations from qualifying countries whose mission involves education and/or health. Free access is available to qualifying organizations from countries representing a low income of $735 GNP or less. Reduced access is available to qualifying organizations from countries representing an income of $736-$2935 GNP.
- PERI: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information
PERI provides on line access to full text articles from medical journals, free or at reduced fees based on GNP. Participating countries.
- Ptolemy
Designated medical researchers and clinicians in developing countries can have access to the University of Toronto Library's medical journal collection through Ptolemy Ptolemy also includes full text articles from peer-reviewed developing country journals through Bioline.
- Public Library of Science (PloS)
A non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS Biology launched its first issue in October 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine is expected to follow in 2004.
- SciELO Public Health
An electronic online library covering health science articles published by scientific journals whose primary goal is to provide universal and integrated access to scientific journals in the health science area within Ibero-American countries.
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