Journals
African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
Publisher: AJOL/National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC)
Description: Provides access to African published research
Link: www.ajol.info
Eyes and Vision Specialist Library (EVSL)
Publisher: National Library for Health (UK)
Description: EVSL provides access to online resources produced, commissioned or licensed by the United Kingdom National Health Service and professional body publications. Key research findings (as presented in peer-reviewed articles) that have shaped current clinical thinking and current practice are also being added to the library.
Link: www.library.nhs.uk/eyes
Bioline
Publisher: University of Toronto Libraries, Canada, Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil, Bioline/UK .
Description: A not-for-profit service providing open access to quality research journals
published in developing countries
Link: www.bioline.org.br
BioMed Central
Publisher: BioMed Central
Description: Free access to more than 150 peer-reviewed open access journals.
Link: www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Publisher: Lund University (Norway)
Description: A database that aims to list all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Link: www.doaj.org
HINARI
Publisher: WHO and the major publishers of peer review journals
Description: The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) was set up by WHO together with major publishers, to enable developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
Link: www.who.int/hinari/en/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Publisher: PLoS
Description: Aims to make the world’s scientific publications and medical literature
freely available to all.
Link: www.plos.org
PubMed/MEDLINE
Publisher: National Library for Medicine (USA)
Description: A database with over 14 million citations for biomedical articles. Many are not open access
but there are links to sites providing free full text articles.
Link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
PubMed Central (PMC)
Publisher: National Library for Medicine (USA)
Description: The open access database of PubMed biomedical and life sciences journal
literature. All articles in PMC are free to access.
Link: www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
The Virtual Health Library (BVS)
Publisher: Latin American and Caribbean Center for
Information (BIREME)
Description: A searchable collection of online health databases, available
in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Link: www.bireme.org
Health materials
Eldis
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.
Description: Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. They also produce a CD "Eldis OnDisc" with a selection of content from the Eldis web site
Link: www.eldis.org
Essential Health Links
Publisher:
AED-SATELLIFE
Date added: 2007-09-01
Description:
A gateway to more than 600 selected websites for health professionals and researchers, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging countries.
Link: www.healthnet.org/essential-links/index.html
Eye Resources on the Internet
Publisher: Association of Vision Science Librarians
Description: A comprehensive ophthalmic links page based in the USA.
Link: webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/websites/eyeres.htm
EyeText.net
Publisher: eyetext.net
Description: The Eyetext database contains ophthalmology related articles, study cards, videos and quizzes.
Link: www.eyetext.net
id21
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Description: id21 is a free development research reporting service, with the latest and best UK-resourced research on developing countries.
Link: www.id21.org
INASP Eye Health links
Publisher: International Network for the Availability
of Scientific Publications (INASP)
Description: Collection of eye health links for developing countries. INASP's mission is to enable worldwide access to information and knowledge with particular emphasis on the needs of developing and transitional countries.
Link: www.inasp.info/health/links/eye.html
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
Publisher: Intute
Description: A database of evaluated, quality internet resources in
health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics
and practitioners.
Link: www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
Source - International Information Support
Centre
Publisher: Centre for International Child Health (CICH)
Description: Source is an International Information Support Centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability. Has three databases - Bibliographic,
Contacts and Newsletters / Journals.
Link: www.asksource.info
VISION
2020 E-Resource Library
Publisher: Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology (LAICO)
Description: A free online collection of comprehensive resources for eye care programmes
around the world with an emphasis on service delivery. Has valuable tools to help plan, implement, manage and
assess high quality, efficient, and sustainable eye care programmes in
the developing world. The library sends out a monthly email newsletter with collections of links to resources on a particular theme. Send your email address to eyesite@aravind.org to subscribe.
Link: www.laico.org/v2020resource/homepage.htm
WHO Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment Publications
Publisher: World Health Organization (WHO)
Description: Documents and publications on the prevention of blindness from the WHO.
Link: www.who.int/blindness/publications/en/ |
