Bioline International

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Bioline International is a not-for-profit digital platform for peer reviewed, open-access bioscience journals published in under-developed or developing countries.

Company Overview
Bioline International is a cooperative project involving two principal parties:
- The Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA): based in Brazil, CRIA provides server hosting, administration, and server development on a volunteer basis.
- Bioline International (Toronto): located at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, the Department of Social Sciences and the UTSC Library collaborate to oversee content management, project development and research.

Description
Bioline is directed by Leslie Chan, Senior Lecturer at UTSC's Centre for Critical Development Studies, coordinated by the UTSC Library, and supported by the University of Toronto Scarborough and members. Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity. Bioline increases the visibility of this research by making it readily available to researchers across the world.

Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement.

General Information
Since its inception in 1993, Bioline's activities have cross-cut a number of areas, including content delivery service, technical development, research on the efficacy of open access dissemination and library usage, as well as in education and training.

Bioline continues to be a strong leader in the global access movement and places importance on increasing the visibility of member journals through OAI harvesting projects, such as its partnership with UofT's TSpace repository. You can keep up to date with Bioline's activities by following the Bioline blog, Facebook, and Twitter (@biolineintl).

Note: This Bioline International T-Space community includes contributor journal articles from 2007 onwards. For articles prior to 2007, access the Bioline International Legacy Collection.

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Bioline Website
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Twitter (@biolineintl)
Bioline Journals
Revista Científica UDO Agrícola

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Please direct copyright concerns to contributing journal publishers, not Bioline International. The following agreements have been made with each contributing journal publisher as per the Electronic Publishing Agreements signed by Bioline and Publisher,

  • Publisher is the owner and duly authorized publisher of the Publications, desires that the Publications be produced and distributed electronically, and possesses the rights and authority to license the Publications for electronic publishing and distribution;
  • WHEREAS, BI is an organization owning, fabricating and distributing an aggregated, machine-­‐readable electronic database called Bioline International, making data therefrom retrievable and searchable using local and remote terminals and computers;
  • WHEREAS, the Publisher and BI desire mutually to provide free access of the Publications as a component of Bioline International under the terms and conditions set forth below.
  • Publisher grants to BI a nonexclusive worldwide license to store and distribute the Publications in a digital format
  • Publisher represents and warrants that it has full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and there is nothing known to the Publisher, including but not limited to its publishing and copyright arrangements and understandings with authors, editors and other parties, that would prevent it from performing its obligations, or BI in excusing the rights granted it, under the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
  • Publisher agrees to review and proof their publications both prior to submitting the Publications in digital format to BI as well as after the Publications are posted online through the Bioline International website to insure accuracy and to report necessary corrections. Publisher will not hold BI responsible for any errors contained in the original publications.
  • Publisher assures BI that Publishers will not infringe upon the copyright of others. Publisher futher agrees that it will not knowingly publish in the Publications any matter that is libelous or actionable. Publisher will indemnify and hold harmless BI against any and all such liability, both to BI and the public, for the publication of such matter.
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