Bioline International

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Bioline International

• In the beginning -
• Established 1993
• Why?
• Academic community becoming restless about price
  increases communications experience,
  international contacts maybe could help
  distribution of research information
• How?
• In collaboration with computer/biological group
  in Brazil who provided server and software
  development
• Email only at first - slow
• Later gopher
• Later WWW
• What?
• 15 journals/reports/newsletters

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Bioline International

• 1996 - 25 journals including commercial
  publications. Gradually improved
  formatting/access/functionality incorporated
  links to public domain databases discussion
  fora demo papers suppliers database online-onl
  y journals ..
• 1997 - set up the Electronic Publishing Trust for
  Development
• 1998 - fewer commercial publications
• - more journals from developing regions
• 2000 - transferred management to University of
  Toronto at Scarborough

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Bioline International

• - Commercial publishers came - and went
• - Developing country publishers came and
  stayed
• - Visibility steadily rising
• - Technology moving forward with new
  developments
• Part of the process ...