GDNet: Journals Data Funding

GDNet supports southern researchers to contribute and debate ideas in development thinking, policy and practice.

All Themes

	Agriculture
	Development Finance & Aid Effectiveness
	Domestic Resource Mobilization
	Education and Training
	Energy
	Entrepreneurship
	Environment and Climate Change
	Gender
	Globalization and Trade
	Governance
	Health
	Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
	Innovation
	International Affairs
	Labor & Social Protections
	Law and Rights
	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
	Migration
	Poverty & Inequality
	Private Sector Development
	Transport
	Urban Development and the Global South
	Water

Journals, data and funding

GDNet facilitates access to data sets, journals and scholarly literature, providing researchers and research organizations in low and middle income countries with access to journals services that are normally only available to paying subscribers subject to terms of agreement with the service provider. Access is granted to eligible researchers who have registered a profile on the GDNet Knowledgebase .

Acceptance is not an automatic entitlement. Subject to data validation and assessment against eligibility criteria, GDNet reserves the right not to accept registration and/or not to provide access to services. GDNet offers access to Jstor; Project MUSE (John Hopkins University), World Development Indicators (open data initiative; now freely accessible) a bi monthly Funding opportunities newsletter, British Library of Development studies (BLDS).

GDNet Journal Services & Data Sets

J-Stor - Journal Collection

GDNet in partnership with JSTOR facilitates access to selective journal collections to eligible researchers registered on the Knowledge Base. Researchers will be provided with access to Business, Business II, Arts and Science II and Arts and Science VI collections. JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.

IMPORTANT: Effective 17 September, 2009, eligibility criteria for JSTOR access has been amended to extend to only qualified researchers as per the JSTOR African Access Initiative and Developing Nations Tier 1 Countries

Project MUSE - Free Journal Access Portal

GDNet's new Journal Access Portal enables social science researchers based in developing or transitional countries to access a searchable, full-text, online database of more than 120 well-known social-science journals, free of charge.

Created especially for GDNet Profile holders based in low or middle income countries, the GDNet Journal Access Portal offers access to journals such as Demography, World Politics, The Journal of Democracy, Anthropological Quarterly, Technology and Culture, and several regional-studies journals, among many others.

British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) - A Library in your Letterbox

The GDNet/BLDS Document Delivery Service allows GDNet Organization Contacts to request copies of journal articles and parts of books in the BLDS collection to be sent to them via post or email.

BLDS holds Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries. The collection includes 1000 journals and 5000 serials concerned specifically with development, many of which are not available digitally. A unique strength of the BLDS collection is its extensive coverage of Southern publications, particularly from Africa and South and East Asia.

World Bank Data Group

Financial and socioeconomic datasets which are made available as part of the GDN partnership with the World Bank Data Group.

Funding Opportunities Newsletters

A bi-monthly newsletter featuring an extensive compilation of region specific funding opportunities for researchers in developing and transition countries.