Accessing Health Information in Developing Countries

Availability of Health Information In recent years, a number of initiatives have been established by international organizations and public-private partnerships to provide free or low-cost access to international scholarly journal literature for institutions and readers in developing countries. [......

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Published inInformation outlook Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 16 - 20
Main Author Juech, Claudia
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Special Libraries Association 01.11.2008
Subjects
Academic libraries
Colleges & universities
Cultural values
Developing countries
Digital libraries
GNP
Gross National Product
Handheld computers
Industrialized nations
International organizations
Internet access
Languages
LDCs
Local area networks
Low income groups
Medical research
Public private partnerships
Urban health care
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Summary:Availability of Health Information In recent years, a number of initiatives have been established by international organizations and public-private partnerships to provide free or low-cost access to international scholarly journal literature for institutions and readers in developing countries. [...] it results in a limited visibility of literature from developing countries in indices that measure research output such as the Science Citation Index, making it harder for researchers from the Global South to participate in the scientific discourse.\n Those mechanisms promote open access concepts and institutional repositories and will be particularly - but not only - beneficial for those at underfunded institutions, and in developing countries, whose access under the traditional model is especially constrained.
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ISSN:1091-0808
1938-3819