29 مارس 2015

Improving Access to Development Research

Improving access to development research from IDS and beyond

IDS is celebrating the milestone achievement of one million downloads from its new open access digital library of development research – IDS OpenDocs.

Image: 'Somalia, Mogadishu. Two students from Mogadishu University use a laptop as they study at home.' (Sven Torfinn / Panos)

IDS OpenDocs is an open access repository of development research from the IDS research community and the digital arm of the British Library for Development Studies’ (BLDS) based at IDS. OpenDocs enables anyone with an internet connection to search and read full-text publications from its collection of developing country research. It is free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/news/improving-access-to-development-research-from-ids-and-beyond