Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• Trustees
• Judy Ugonna, British Council - Acting Chair
• Leslie Chan, CITD/Bioline International, Toronto
• Vanderlei Canhos, BDT, Brazil
• Virginia Cano, Edinburgh University
• Margaret Ling, Zimbabwe Intl. Book Fair
• Fran Giaquinto, BioDiversity Ltd.
• Tony / ODonnell, Newcastle University
• Sec/Treasurer BE and BH Kirsop

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• The distribution of research results is
  fundamental to the progress of science.
• But what is happening in developing countries?

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• The scientific community in developing countries
  has two problems
• The N to S knowledge gap
• The S to N knowledge gap

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• The N to S problem
• According to ARL Libraries experience
• - costs of serials have risen by
• 15/year
• - projected to rise by 1800 by year
• 2020
• How does this affect developing country
  libraries?

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• The S to N problem
• Publishers face
• High printing costs
• High distribution costs
• Leading to
• Low distribution levels
• Difficulty in obtaining submissions
• Difficulty in maintaining regularity

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• Problems for scientists
• Scientists face difficulties in publishing in
  mainstream Western journals
• Local journals have poor distribution levels
• Consequences
• Research largely unknown and unacknowledged
• Feeling of professional isolation

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• The invisibility to which mainstream publishing
  condemns most third world research thwarts the
  efforts of poor countries to strengthen their
  indigenous science journals, and with them the
  quality of research, in regions that most need
  them.
• Richard Horton, Editor The Lancet, 1996

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• EPT is a UK registered charitable trust (No.
  1059867)
• The aims of the Trust are to
• - facilitate the global electronic distribution
  of scientific journals published in developing
  countries
• - support capacity building in e-publishing
  through training
• - support access to knowledge available
  electronically

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Bioline International

• Biotecnologia Aplicada
• Sociedad Iberolatinoamericana de Biotecnologia
• About this journal
• Volume 17, No.1, 2000
• Volume 16, No. 4, 1999
• Volume 16, No. 3, 1999
• Volume 16, No. 2, 1999
• .........

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Bioline International

• Biotecnologia Aplicada
• Sociedad Iberolatinoamericana de Biotecnologia
  Aplicada a la Salud
• Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis
  delta-endotoxin..
• Estudio Cinetico De Las Reacciones De Aceptor
  ......
• High dose alpha-interferon treatment in amylo
  .....
• Modificacion del gen de la esporamina de boniato
  ...
• Production of Hepatitus B Surface Antigen .....
• .........
• .........

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Bioline International

• Biotecnologia Aplicada
• Biotechnologia Aplicada 1996 Vol. 13, No. 4.
• Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis
  delta-Endotoxin Genes in Transgenic Plants
• Code Number BA96101
• ABSTRACT
• The cloning and expression of Bacillus
  thuringiensis delta-edotoxin genes in transgenic
  plants have been used with the objective of
  protecting crops from insect attack. The
  increased expression of the insecticidal cry
  genes in plants has been ....
• ...........

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Bioline International

• DBGET Search Result
• Database EMBL-today
• Latest EMBL release plus cumulative daily updates
• keyword(s) cry thuringiensis (Total 127 hits)
• 1. embuAFO76953 AFO76953 Bacillus
  thuringiensis ...
• 2. embA21879 A21879 hybrid sequence
  HD1/HD73 5....
• 3. embA21880 A21880 hybrid sequence
  HD1/HD73 45...
• 4. embA21881 A21881 hybrid sequence
  HD1/HD73 3....
• ..........
• DBGET Database Links

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Bioline International

• ID S68149 standard DNA PRO 480 BP.
• AC S68149
• NI g545188
• DT 27-SEP-1994 (Rel 41, Created)
• DE cryIVBinsecticidal crystal protein
  promoterBacillus..
• ...
• RX MEDLINE 94131292
• .....
• SQ Sequence 480 BP 182 A 43 C 87 G 168 T O
  Other
• ataaccacta acgatatgta tggaaaatta ttttgaagtg
  aaaaaatatg ......
• aatggaataa ttatattggt acagaaatat gattgggatt
  agtgagtcta .....
• ...........
• DBGET Database Links

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• Search for malaria across all Bioline journals
  (1)
• - Central African Journal of Medicine
• Revised standard treatment guidelines on Malaria
  case management
• Ineffectiveness of vaporizing mats/liquids
  containing....
• - East African Medical Journal
• Epidemiological feature of severe paediatric
  malaria in....
• - Zimbabwe Science News
• Where malaria is caught in Zimbabwe....
• A review of the early history of malaria in
  Zimbabwe ....
• - Transactions of the Zimbabwe Scientific
  Association
• Biting activity of mosquitoes and malaria
  incidence....
• - Indian Journal of Experimental Biology
• Experimental analysis of gossypol and chloroquine
  interaction in....
• Role of macrophages Bioassay of silica in
  immunity against
• Plasmodium....

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• Search for malaria across all Bioline journals
  (2)
• Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
• Increase of a calcium independent
  transglutaminase activity in...
• Evolutionary control of infectious disease
  prospects for ...
• Antimalarial drug resistance surveillance and
  .....
• Allelic diversity at the Merozoite Surface
  Protein-1(MSP-1) locus...
• Evaluation of DNA recombinant methodologies for
  the diagnosis..
• Studies of the Bacillus sphaericus larvicidal
  activity against...
• Anopheline species complexes in Brazil. Current
  knowledge....
• Humoral immune response to the anti-malarial
  vaccine SPf66....
• Separation and mapping of chromosomes of
  parasitic protozoa...
• ..........

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• Can electronic publishing help?
• It can hugely increase visibility
• The technology is cheap
• It is easy to learn
• Global visibility leads to partnerships
• Ends feeling of professional isolation
  (contacts, scientific partnerships etc)
• Scientists become enthusiastic to publish in
  local journals
• Overall strengthening of the science base
• .................. Upward spiral, gap begins to
  close

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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development

• What is needed now?
• Continuing infrastructure support
• Raising awareness of benefits
• Training/ Starter packs
• Partnerships with existing initiatives
• Awareness of (and involvement in) other
  international initiatives (Santa Fe Open Archive
  Standards, LANL e-print archives, Cogprints,
  PubMedCentral/E-Biomed, HighWire, SciELO, SPARC
  ......)

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• The EPT wishes to collaborate with other partners
  that support its aims.
• http//dspace.dial.pipex.com/bioline/
• ept_at_biostrat.demon.co.uk