AGORA :Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
Nearly 1300 food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences journals for institutions in developing countries.
Search the BLDS catalogue for journal articles; BLDS selectively indexes over 150 journals relevant to social and economic development in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Including free international development E-journals
Searchable library catalogue and journal articles database, containing records of over 120,000 documents such as serial titles, monographs and selected journal articles.
Promotes literacy in developing countries by creating reading and learning opportunities for disadvantaged people.
The British Council helps to share British expertise and talent throughout the world. Includes information on the arts, development and training, education, literature, publishing, and science. Also covers business partnerships, international seminars, and good government.
Development Studies Association
Aims to distribute information about international development issues. Includes publications and information about study groups and conferences.
The DFID Health Resource Centre is an international consortium funded by DFID to provide high quality advice, expertise and knowledge in public health and health systems in low and middle income countries to DFID staff and partners. This includes provision of consultancy services for DFID country offices and headquarters, as well as information services for the use of DFID staff and the wider development community.
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Eldis: Finding journal articles
A large comprehensive list of journals related to international development. See especially Free access to journal articles for those in developing countries and Free to everyone: Open Access and other free journals.
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
Online tool for browsing and searching of text, summaries, and status of treaties and other international agreements related to global environmental change and sustainable development.
Forum: Habitat in Developing Countries
Aims to provide information to researchers and professionals working for the improvement of the built environment in developing countries, and at facilitating communications among them.
Global Development Network (GDN)
Network of development researchers and institutes. Communicates thousands of development research documents, profiles of researchers and organisations. The GDN BLDS Document Delivery Service delivers articles and book chapters at no cost to Southern institutions that are members of GDN. The Online Services section offers access to online journals, online datasets, funding information and toolkits.
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) provides cutting-edge knowledge services on demand and online. It aims to help reduce poverty by informing policy and practice in relation to governance, conflict and social development.
HINARI (WHO | Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative)
Over 3750 biomedical and health journals titles available to health institutions in developing countries.
Mechanism for professional information exchange in the field of humanitarian aid. Includes information on HPN objectives, membership information, abstracts of HPN publications, and online newsletters focusing on political emergencies in specific regions
IDEX: International Development Exchange
IDEX was founded to support community based development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Contains information on current projects, links to other related resources and details of internships and volunteer opportunities.
INASP: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
Network for making scientific information available to developing world. The PERI (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information) section includes a directory of Free and open access resources.
International Development Research Centre, Canada
Centre supported by the Canadian government which aims to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD's mission is to promote sustainable development in decision making internationally and within Canada, by contributing new knowledge and concepts, analysing policies, identifying and disseminating information about best practices, demonstrating how to measure progress, and building partnerships to amplify these messages.
ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa)
Provides support for the TEEAL, AGORA, HINARI and OARE research information programmes, and IT skills capacity building for African information specialists and Partner Programmes.
JSTOR: African Access Initiative Participation
The entire JSTOR archive available for any institution in an African country.
OARE: Online Access to Research in the Environment
Environmental science research journal articles available to developing countries.
Overseas Development Institute
ODI is a British Think Tank on Development Issues. Relevant information includes Resources, Programmes and Events.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Also PubMed, citations and abstracts to biomedical and other life science journal literature, with some full text links.
R4D is a free access on-line database containing information about research programmes supported by DFID. R4D provides the latest information about research funded by DFID, including news, case studies and details of current and past research in over 20,000 project and document records.
Research guides and research methods
Links to websites on academic research and a resource centre library houses the largest specialized collections in Norway on development studies and is an oasis of valuable information open to the public.
Organisation representing 46 developing countries, addressing major policy issues, government proposals, and the development of institutions and intergovernmental organisations of the South. Features a regular newsletter, and a selection of papers produced by the centre available as PDF files.
TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library
130+ agricultural journals and the ability to works offline.
Over 10,000,000 electronic texts of educational resources, aimed at the Developing World.
UK Collaborative on Development Sciences
UKCDS are developing a selection of resources for the development sciences community. search for resources by theme — agriculture, environment, health, economy & society and science innovation and engineering, or by type — databases, networks, organisations and major research programmes. Or search publications section for development-related reports, papers, consultation and policy documents.
UNDP: United Nations Development Programme
UNDP promotes sustainable human development. Includes information on the UNDP purpose and aims, news and announcements, details of UNDP activities, a section monitoring progress on sustainable development, general UN information, environment information, and the UN poverty clock which indicates the growth in poverty around the world.
UNICEF: United Nations Childrens Fund
Includes UNICEF news and information, information on the organisation's activities worldwide, child rights information and a link to 'The Progress of Nations' report, ranking countries according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning and progress for women.
The WHO provides a range of information on health and diseases including Data and Statistics and Publications.
