ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING TRUST FOR DEVELOPMENT
last up-dated November 18th 2008

NEW!! Peter Suber suggests OA to publicly funded research as Obama sets up site for suggestions to the new Chief Technology Officer.
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NOTE: For all recent OA developments, the first stop is Peter Suber's Open Access News - it is updated daily.

[1] Brisbane, Australia Conference, September 24-26th 2008, Open Access and Research has lead to the development of the OA Brisbane Declaration. For details, see EPT Blog.

[2] Cuba, September 2-5, 2008: International Workshop for Open Access to Scientific Literature and other Digital Scientific Information Resources in Central America and the Caribbean: Focus on Education and Health for Sustainable Development, organised and supported by the IAP and the Cuban Academy of Science.

[3] The Open Society Institute has agreed a grant to develop an online OA Sourcebook. This much needed tool, to be called OASIS, will be launched shortly. Watch this space for further news

The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) was established in 1996 to facilitate open access to the world's scholarly literature and to support the electronic publication of reviewed bioscience journals from countries experiencing difficulties with traditional publication.

• Scientists and publishers in many countries face problems both in accessing the world's research information and in gaining high visibility for their publications and national research output. The cost of printing and distributing journals leads to low circulation levels which in turn leads to a reluctance by scientists to publish. The outcome is the loss of much important scientific information which either remains unavailable to the international scientific community or suffers long delays in publication. The transfer of e-publishing technology and online distribution of such journals can greatly increase visibility and enrich the global knowledge base.

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• E-publishing workshop in Bangalore, India, November 2006

  The main activities of the EPT are to:

  • provide awareness of the benefits of electronic publishing
  • transfer e-publishing technology through training and online resources
    
  • provide management and distribution support
  • support open access initiatives and make them known to developing country scientists and publishers

  The Trust focusses on the biological sciences which, in such fields as infectious diseases, public health, tropical medicine, biodiversity, environmental and agricultural sciences, require a global picture. Local scientific information is critical, particularly in the case of human, animal and plant disease surveillance and conservation.

Registered Charity Number 1059867