Bioline International is a
non-profit cooperative that operates an online platform for sharing works by
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
bioscience journals published in
developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. This includes
meta data,
abstracts, and individual articles in
pdf
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and
HTML (when available). Bioline is an international collaboration between the
University of Toronto Libraries
The University of Toronto Libraries system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked third among peer institutions in North America, behind only Harvard and Yale. The system consists of 39 libraries located on University of Toronto' ...
as stewards, the Reference Center on Environmental Information in Brazil for technical infrastructure, and Bioline UK as a liaison.
It was founded by
Leslie Chan
Leslie Chan is an advocate for open access. He is a professor at University of Toronto Scarborough.
Biography
Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1959. When he was 16 he moved to Canada to attend university. He received a degree in anthropology. While ...
.
In 2010
Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango spoke about the difficulties of publishing her ideas about Africa's vegetables and fruits. She noted the importance of
Open Access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
at an event at the
University of Nairobi Library.
References
External links
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Reference Center on Environmental Information
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