We are committed to the development of an open and thriving information society in Iraq. We focus on supporting the needs of Iraqi students, teachers and academics and their university and college libraries.
We have secured free access to all the following electronic journals for all universities in Iraq for 2005.
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) is a WHO initiative that online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit institutions in developing countries. The goal of HINARI is to increase the level of medical care within low-income countries and the health of their populace.
Register online at http://www.healthinternetwork.org/
Gale, a business of Thomson Corporation, is offering free access to all Iraqi institutions to their large databases and reference libraries. This includes the Times Digital Archive, the Literary Resource Centre and the Gale Reference Library. http://www.galeuk.com/trials/iraq
Email: duncan.powell@thomson.com to register your institution and receive your password.
Taylor & Francis Group are offering free trial access to the full text of their collection of over 1000 academic journals through their website at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
Contact ashleigh.bell@informa.com with the name of your institution, full address, contact name and position, email address and ip range.
Blackwell Publishing are extending their 2004 offer of free access to over 750 electronic journals to all Iraqi institutions. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/jnl_default.asp?site=1
Contact Reinhard Schuelke at reinhard.schuelke@ber.blackwellpublishing.com
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is an FAO initiative which gives access to journals covering agriculture, fisheries, food, nutrition, veterinary science, and related biological, environmental, and social sciences to institutions in the world's poorest countries. The aim is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security.
To register, visit www.aginternetwork.org
If you are a member of Baghdad, Basra, Dohuk, Salahaddin and Suliamaniya Universities, please visit our resource centre pages for journals to which you have access.
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