Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br/

Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI’s goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and more to come, BI provides a unique service by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide. Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement. Since its inception, Bioline’s activities have cross-cut a number of areas, including content delivery service, technical development, research on the efficacy of open access dissemination and library usage, as well as in education and training. In particular, Bioline: a) Provides a free platform to promote open access journals for publishers who may not otherwise have sufficient resources on their own; b) Reduces technological and financial barriers to knowledge acquisition by providing bioscience journal material on an open-access, easily accessible basis, regardless of geographic, technological or financial boundaries; c) Improves the visibility of developing world publications, allowing them to enter into mainstream research and knowledge activities and thereby raising their impact and credibility; d) Acts as an OAI data provider, allowing journal articles to be easily harvested and discovered by other indexing services; e) Introduces publishers to new software and standards, and training them to make better use of open source resources; and f) Promotes open access to the academic community through case studies, research into how open access affects authors, and studies of library use and adoption of such resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.