GDNet Journals: BLDS Document Delivery Service

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GDNet BLDS Document Delivery Service

Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries

Accessing the latest development knowledge is a key challenge for many researchers in developing and transition countries. Recognizing these challenges, GDNet and the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) have teamed up to bring you the GDNet/BLDS Document Delivery service to meet the information needs of research institutes in the South.

BLDS holds Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries. It has over 1000 journals, 4000 serials and over 80,000 monographs concerned specifically with development.

British Library for Development Studies (BLDS)

About the BLDS collection: unique resource with extensive Southern coverage

A particular strength of the BLDS collection is its extensive coverage of Southern publications, particularly from Africa and South and East Asia. The collection represents a unique source of primary information, including grey literature, much of which is not digitally available.

The GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service allows you to search the huge BLDS online catalogue of development related resources from your desktop, then request copies of articles you and your research colleagues need at the click of a button.

A 'real-life' BLDS librarian will receive your request, then photocopy or scan the article or book chapter you need and will send it to you via post or email.

The costs of delivering the documents are covered by GDN so there are no costs to you.

For more information about BLDS visit the website More »
To get an idea of the range and depth of coverage, search the online catalogue More »
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How to use the service, please complete the below steps:

Only GDNet Organization Contacts are eligible for free document delivery so please ensure that you are registered as your organization’s GDNet contact before registering for the document service.

Check if your organization already has a GDNet Organization profile by searching the GDNet Knowledgebase using the search box in the top right hand corner of this page. If it does NOT have a profile, go to the organization sign up page to create one More »
Go to the document delivery service sign up page and complete your details. More »

One of the BLDS Librarians will contact you with further information. If you experience any difficulties or have any further queries about this service please contact us at: docdel@ids.ac.uk

Eligibility

This service is provided only to research institutes in developing and transition countries and can be accessed by GDNet Organization Contacts. A GDNet Organization Contact is the named contact for an organization which holds a profile on GDNet. Due to copyright restrictions it can be provided only to those individuals who have a responsibility for meeting the information needs of others at their institute, e.g. librarians or administrators and is not available to individual researchers.