Librarianship in the South

LIS new professionals network : an online network for new professionals in library & information services

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: LIS new professionals network (LISNPN)
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  • Keywords: international librarianship
LISNPN is a network for New Professionals in the Library and Information sector. This is a place to get help, advice, guidance and information, for people working in the related fields of librarianship. The site was launched on July the 5th 2010, at the New Professionals Conference.

BioMed central blog : open access Africa

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: BioMed central
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  • Keywords: health information, data bases, africa
The central blog brings together researchers, librarians, university administrators and funders to discuss the issues surrounding access to scientific and medical research, and the role that open access journals can play.

OAPEN : Open access publishing in European networks : online library and publication platform

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: Amsterdam university press
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  • Keywords: university and college libraries, scientific and technical information
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

HIFA 2015 : Healthcare information for all by 2015

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: Global healthcare information network (GHI-net)]
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  • Keywords: health information, data bases
HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information for All by 2015) is a campaign and knowledge network. Its goal is: by 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider.

ScientificCommons

| 2010-
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  • Publisher: Universitنt St. Gallen. Institut für Medien und Kommunikationsmanagement
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  • Keywords: data bases
A project of the University of St. Gallen which aims to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public. It now contains almost 40 million articles in over 1200 repositories.
 

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The Librarianship in the South portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic resources on information literacy, ICT issues, institutional repositories, and preservation of documentary heritage. Find your resources in the database.