Adcock, J;
Fottrell, E;
(2008)
The North-South information highway: case studies of publication access among health researchers in resource-poor countries.
Global Health Action
, 1
10.3402/gha.v1i0.1865.
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Abstract
Less than 2% of scientific publications originate in low-income countries. Transfer of information from South to North and from South to South is grossly limited and hinders understanding of global health, while Northern-generated information fails to adequately address the needs of a Southern readership.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The North-South information highway: case studies of publication access among health researchers in resource-poor countries |
| Location: | Sweden |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3402/gha.v1i0.1865 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v1i0.1865 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2008 J Adcock and E Fottrell. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | academic publishing, access to literature, developing countries, open access |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1314724 |
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