Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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New Scientist is one of Britain's most popular general science magazines. The website is updated daily with science news and gives limited access material in the
print edition. Access to the
archives is limited to subscribers, though non-subscribers can register for a free 7-day trail.
OAIster is a cross-institutional archive of digital resources, including electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies and reference texts. It aims to provide a collection of scholarly digital resources easily searchable by anyone, and is run by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.
OAI develops and promotes network standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of digital content. When the organisation was created in 1999, its main aim was to enhance access to eprint archives to improve scholarly communication. It has since expanded its remit to include the exchange of a wide range of digital content. The initiative is led by Herbert Van de Sompel from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carl Lagoze at Cornell University.
The Open Science Directory aims to create a unique access point to scientific information for researchers in developing countries. It provides access to journals in special programmes, such as HINARI and OARE, as well as links to other open access journals.
Our Planet is the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) free quarterly magazine on environmentally sustainable development. Themed editorial and feature articles are contributed by leaders of United Nations organisations, national governments, non-governmental organizations, business leaders and other opinion formers. Each article is published in English, French and Spanish, and an archive of
past issues is available.
The Communication of Science and Technology network (PCST) Academy is responsible for the creation of the documentary basis of the Public Communication of Science and Technology network (PCST) and its main task is the selection and organized collection of reports on particular topics in the field of communication and social understanding of science.
Since it was established in 1914, the PNAS has published research, commentaries, reviews and perspectives on the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is published biweekly in print, and limited free access is provided on its online version.
PERI has several programmes that supports research capacity building in developing nations, including: helping developing nations obtain subsidised subscriptions to journals; providing access to more than 8,000 open access journals; facilitating the creation of online publishing outlets; and providing training in ICTs. PERI is run by the
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).
The Ptolemy Project - run by the library of Canada's University of Toronto - is exploring a novel way to provide a group of doctors and medical students in several east African countries with electronic access to information resources, by making them as research affiliates. This gives these individuals full access to the library's electronic resources, including 20,000 full text journals.
PLoS Medicine is an open-access journal published by the nonprofit organisation
Public Library of Science. It publishes original research, reviews, and 'policy forum' pieces on a wide range of health science topics including malaria.
Founded in 2000, the Public Library of Science is an organisation in support of open-access science publishing. The initiative began with a letter, signed by thousands, urging publishers to commit to open access. When this failed to have the desired effect, the group pledged to create its own journals. The first of these,
PLoS Biology, was launched in October 2003.
Public Understanding of Science is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the interface between science, medicine and technology, and the public. Topics such as science in the mass media, popular perceptions of science, public engagement in science, social issues around emerging technologies, science in developing countries and science policy are featured regularly. The journal publishes original research papers, perspectives that explore key and new ideas, book reviews and research bibliographies.
This website hosts over 200 documentaries on science and development from across the world, including Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics covered include health, environment, gender and education.
Documentaries include "What a Waste!" — a BBC World News series looking at how the world will cope with the growing demand for power and energy — and "A Fight for Life" which examines health care for pregnant women and newborn children amongst others.
NAST was founded in 1982 as an autonomous academic body set up to promote research in science and technology by organising conferences and seminars, provide financial help, and recognise nationally outstanding scientists. NAST advises on national science and technology policy with a focus on promoting indigenous knowledge and aiding the uptake of appropriate technology. The site gives information about a wide range of grants offered by NAST. The academy is associated with over two hundred publications and publishes a regular newsletter distributed to national and international science and technology institutes.
A leading international interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, which appears in both print and online versions. Full access is normally by paid subscription only, but SciDev.Net provides free access to selected articles each week.
Science Communication is an international, interdisciplinary social science journal that links science communication theory and practice. Its definition of science is broad and may include closely-related issues of public policy and the social roles of knowledge and expertise. Most refereed articles in Science Communication are based on qualitative or quantitative evidence and have conclusions that have a bearing on professional practice.
A free online African science magazine published on a monthly basis, which reports on the latest research developments from the continent in the form of readable news, feature and opinion articles. Science in Africa in run by two biotechnologists from Rhodes University, South Africa and is funded by the South African Foundation for Education, Science, and Technology (FEST), MERC, and Sasol.
This is the website to America's leading popular science magazine. It provides free access to regularly updated science
news stories as well as to selected articles from the monthly print edition.
SciELO is a Latin American open access initiative. Its primary function is to serve as a common repository for science articles published in journals from developing nations, particularly in Latin America and the Carribbean. Equally important is its
methodology, a protocol for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of electronic papers.
