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Book Aid International
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.
Details...The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
A full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM 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, as listed in the World B
Details...International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination.
Details...Open Access
Gathers information from many sources and bundles it thematically for presentation to various target groups. English and German language.
Details...Open Knowledge Definition
Provides criteria for openness in relation to data, content, and software services.
Details...The Open Knowledge Foundation
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.
Details...Open Society Foundations
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.
Details...Public Library of Science
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.
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