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As others have said, there is a great deal of activity regarding OA
and developing countries (DCs). The following articles and sites may
be of interest, and there is much more information on the Internet,
for eg from the Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://roar.eprints.org/ which lists all the institutional
repositories in DCs providing OA:
SOME ARTICLES:
~QAccess to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development:
Options for Developing Countries~R, ARIADNE, 2007:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue52/kirsop-et-al/
Open access archiving: the fast track to building research capacity
in developing countries, SciDevNet, 2006
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/4415/1/Open_Access_Archivi
ng.pdf
Open Access to Science in the Developing World, <?xml:namespace
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/>World-Information City, October 17, 2005.
Transforming access to research literature for developing countries,
Serials Review, 2005,
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/4416/1/Kirsop_Chan_Serials
Review.pdf
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) sites:
EPT web site
http://www.epublishingtrust.org
EPT blog (new)
http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com/
EXAMPLES OF DISTRIBUTORS/PUBLISHERS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY
PUBLICATIONS:
Bioline International (global DC journals):
http://www.epublishingtrust.org
SciELO (Brazil and other Latin American journals):
http://www.scielo.org
MedKnow Publications (Indian journals):
http://www.medknow.com
(Note: none of these journals make publication charges)
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