Organizations engaged in several initiatives for funding and promoting dissemination of knowledge, in particular access to scientific resources.
Visit http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ for overview material appropriate as a starting point to learn about open access, but keep in mind this generality: "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions."
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Provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools in order to support literacy, education, training and publishing in over 40 countries around the world. Concentrates over 85% of its resources on 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
A full-text and bibliographic online library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, held at Cornell University, Ithaca.
Assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination.
Gathers information from many sources and bundles it thematically for presentation to various target groups. English and German language.
Provides criteria for openness in relation to data, content, and software services.
Not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge. Includes information on its various database projects, events, a blog, and how to get involved and provide support.
Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform.
PLoS. Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.
Not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge. Includes information on its various database projects, events, a blog, and how to get involved and provide support.
A full-text and bibliographic online library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, held at Cornell University, Ithaca.
Gathers information from many sources and bundles it thematically for presentation to various target groups. English and German language.
Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform.
Provides criteria for openness in relation to data, content, and software services.
INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination.
Provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools in order to support literacy, education, training and publishing in over 40 countries around the world. Concentrates over 85% of its resources on 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
PLoS. Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.
Assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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