Links
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies. http://www.aegis-eu.org/
- AGORA The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1171 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/.
- African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is a service to provide access to African published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of AJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. http://www.ajol.info/
- Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. By aggregating these materials online, the Aluka collections link materials that are widely dispersed and difficult to access, opening up new opportunities for research, teaching, and broader public discussion. One of Aluka's primary objectives is to provide African scholars and students with access to scholarly materials originally from Africa, but now out of their reach. http://www.aluka.org
- Connecting-Africa provides access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) and by filtering the metadata using its Post Harvest Analyzer. There is no charge for using the service or for contributing to it. http://www.connecting-africa.net/
- Health InterNetwork Access to Research InitiativeThe HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3750 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
- EIFL net - eIFL.net has established 6 core programs which enable and sustain access to knowledge by library users in developing and transitional countries: Negotiations; Consortium building; http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home
- International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications INASP's Mission is to enable a sustainable network of stakeholders that owns and drives access, use, dissemination and communication of research information. http://www.inasp.info/file/55/homepage.html
- Open Archives Initiative OAI The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience. http://www.openarchives.org/
- PERI PERI is a programme to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and emerging countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information & knowledge http://www.inasp.info/peri/index.shtml
- SOAS E-prints Repository SOAS Research Online is a free, publicly accessible repository of the research outputs of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The repository contains both full text papers and metadata only (descriptive) records of research carried out by SOAS staff members. Full text materials will be made available where copyright allows otherwise the reference details can be deposited and a link to the online location of the research paper will be included (if available). https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/