[Commons-Law] Putting developing country research online

[Pranesh Prakash]

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Subject: 	Fwd: FW: Putting developing country research online
Date: 	Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:28:17 +0530
From: 	Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com>


Friends:

This information should reach all development -related researchers and
research institutions in India, such as ICSSR institutions,
universities, NGOs and even institutions like IISc and IITs.

Arun



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From: *Derek Law* <d.law at strath.ac.uk <mailto:d.law at strath.ac.uk>>
Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM
Subject: FW: Putting developing country research online
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For information
Derek
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Professor Derek Law
Turnbull Building
University of Strathclyde
155 George Street
Glasgow G1 1RD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 141 548 4997
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, number SC015263.
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From: Helen Rehin [H.Rehin at ids.ac.uk <mailto:H.Rehin at ids.ac.uk>]
Sent: 29 September 2011 10:04
To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr <mailto:ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr>
Subject: [IFLA-L] Putting developing country research online

With apologies for cross-posting – please see story below.

New BLDS Digital Library is helping research from developing countries
enjoy a wider global readership
With so many library users now expecting to access information through
search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked
in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and
European academic institutions.

The British Library for Development Studies<http://www.blds.ids.ac.uk/>
(BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development
materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing
countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only
been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document
Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched Digital
Library<http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/3> will help
redress the situation by making developing country research more
accessible and visible online

The new service, funded by the UK’s Department for International
Development, has been created to help decades of research from
developing country institutions enjoy a wider global readership. BLDS is
working with partner research institutes in Africa and Asia, to digitise
their printed publications and host them online so they can be easily
found through search engines. Nearly 600 papers have been digitised so
far from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and India, with more to be
added in coming months as BLDS continues building partnerships with
research institutes. The publications in the BLDS Digital Library are
being made available through a Creative Commons licence which enables
future sharing and dissemination of this content by others.
For more information on the BLDS Digital Library, contact Henry
Rowsell<mailto:h.rowsell at ids.ac.uk <mailto:h.rowsell at ids.ac.uk>>
or visit the BLDS Global Projects webpage at
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-projects



Best,

Helen Rehin
Deputy Librarian
BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Institute of Development Studies
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE

Tel: +44 (0)1273 915660
Email: h.rehin at ids.ac.uk
<mailto:h.rehin at ids.ac.uk><mailto:h.rehin at ids.ac.uk
<mailto:h.rehin at ids.ac.uk>>
Website: www.blds.ids.ac.uk
<http://www.blds.ids.ac.uk><http://blds.ids.ac.uk>

BLDS is funded by DFID<http://www.dfid.gov.uk/> (through the Mobilising
Knowledge for Development Programme) and IDS<http://www.ids.ac.uk>.


** NEW ** The BLDS Digital Library gives you free online access to
decades of research from research institutes in Africa and Asia.
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/digital-library






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