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Status | Active |
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Founded | 1993 |
Founders | Barbara Kirsop, Brian Kirsop, Vanderlei Canhos |
Country of origin | Canada |
Headquarters location | Toronto |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Publication types | Scientific journals |
Nonfiction topics | Bioscience, biology, medicine, health |
Official website |
bioline |
Bioline International is a non-profit cooperative that operates an online platform for sharing works by peer-reviewed open access bioscience journals published in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. [1] This includes meta data, abstracts, and individual articles in pdf and HTML (when available). [2] [3] Bioline is an international collaboration between the University of Toronto Libraries as stewards, the Reference Center on Environmental Information in Brazil for technical infrastructure, and Bioline UK as a liaison. [4] It was founded by Leslie Chan.
In 2010 Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango spoke about the difficulties of publishing her ideas about Africa's vegetables and fruits. She noted the importance of Open Access at an event at the University of Nairobi Library. [5]