Wectar - Society - Organizations - Open Access

	submit a site to this category
	wectar web site suggestions for this odp category

	Public Library of Science URL: http://www.plos.org/ ODP description: 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.
	Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network URL: http://www.soros.org/ ODP description: US-based private operating and grantmaking foundation that aims to promote open societies by shaping government policy and supporting education, media, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform Page title: Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network
	Book Aid International URL: http://www.bookaid.org/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Book Aid International - Book Aid International
	International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications URL: http://www.inasp.info/ ODP description: INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination. Page title: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, INASP, Home Page Page description: INASP, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
	International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) URL: http://www.iicd.org/ ODP description: Assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Page title: IICD - International Institute for Communication and Development - index_html
	International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP) URL: http://www.icaap.org/ ODP description: Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content. Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of free scholarly journals and resources. Page title: ICAAP - Home Page description: ICAAP is devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication. Our mission includes technological support, production, publication, and enhancement of scholarly journals and educational resources, with the goals of greater accessibility, recognition and communication within the academic community.
	James Burke's Knowledge Web URL: http://www.k-web.org/ ODP description: Digital incrarnation of the James Burke's television programs. Visitors can create their own pathways through history, contribute content and investigate virtual reality learning spaces. Page title: James Burke Institute's Knowledge Web - Home
	Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) URL: http://www.healthinternetwork.org/ ODP description: Provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit institutions in developing countries. Page title: WHO \| Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
	The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) URL: http://www.teeal.org/ ODP description: 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 Bank's World Development Report. Page title: TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library