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Network of Youth Excellence
Research experience for students below 21
Between 14 and 21 years is the age of self-discovery, when adolescents explore their capabilities and limits, and seek a place in society. Puberty is a challenging time for many parents and teachers. Their children and students question their â€wisdomâ€, and set out to find answers to problems that they think adults cannot properly address. Science and research offer a unique opportunity for adolescents to quench their thirst for answers and explore their intellectual strengths and capabilities. Research in a laboratory and interaction with other scientists provide a new social environment for these students, where they can earn recognition of their capabilities and find role models that they might not encounter at school, at home or with their childhood friends. Moreover many students who carry out research in a laboratory often form their first real friendships of consequence based on shared intellectual pursuits in this new environment.
All around the world an increasing number of initiatives ensure research possibilities for motivated secondary school students. The Network of Youth Excellence allows the exchange of experiences among the best initiatives worldwide. More than 25 organizations all over the world have already joined this network as Full Members or Partners.
Learn more at: http://www.nyex.info/
Newsletter
this is a first attempt to put a newsletter together.
Open Resources
Online Access to Research in the Environment
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature.
Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others.
more at: http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
see also:
http://www.waysnet.org/2006/nov/08/1435/bethsnowy/developing_wor...
arXiv.org
Open access to 382,035 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
powered by Cornell University Library
Open J-Gate
Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3721 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.
"It claims to be the largest OA portal in the world, providing access to more than 3,000 journals and millions of articles, and promising to add more than 300,000 new articles every year. It's well-implemented but has some bumps to smooth out. For example, the scope is very large, but it omits two of the first four BMC journals I tried to find. I love the way it support article-level searching, but when you find relevant articles, it links more often to publisher web sites and current journal issues than to the articles themselves. It has a very flexible advanced search function, letting users limit searches to authors, titles, author-institutions, date, and so on, as well as to topics at any of three levels of specificity (for example, "Basic Sciences" / "Chemistry" / "Nuclear Chemistry")."
A comment from:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-06.htm
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2352 journals in the directory. Currently 682journals are searchable at article level. As of today 107380 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
Enabling worldwide access to information and knowledge
INASP assists researchers, scientists, educators, and health and rural development practitioners in transitional and developing countries to access, create and use information and knowledge.
read more at:
http://www.inasp.info/
INASP produce a wide variety of resources available at:
http://www.inasp.info/pubs/index.shtml#1
Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The access to free scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice and attract Internet visitors to these journals. Journals that restrict access to their Web sites will lose popularity. If you wish to be informed about new free journals, you may subscribe to the Journal Alert
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3300 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.
Free Agricultural Journals
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.
AGORA provides a collection of 892 journals to institutions in 69 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Open access publishing takes advantage of the ability to exchange information more efficiently and creatively via the Internet, allowing barrier-free access to scientific and medical information for a global audience. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) seeks to catalyze a change from traditional subscription-based scientific and medical journal publishing to open access publishing.
Power and Interest News Report
The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) is an independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader.
see for instance the article about ''Asia's Coming Water Wars''.
Free online Analytical Science Journal
The Journal of Analytical-Science.com is a subscription free journal, available to all their Internet visitors, providing a wide exposure of your work across academia and industry.
Translations for Progress
The mission of Translations for Progress is to facilitate communication
within the global grass roots community and to create opportunities for
language students and professionals to get involved in social issues.
We provide a meeting place (Translation Exchange) where volunteer
translators (e.g., linguistics students or professionals in foreign
languages interested in building experience as translators and/or
editors or proofreaders while contributing to a good cause) can link up
with low-budget NGOs who are in need of translation work, but without
the budget to pay for it.
The need for translations, even of less than professional quality,
cannot be understated for many NGOs in developing and even developed
nations. Often chronically short of funds, such organizations need
translations in order to work with the press internationally, seek
funding from overseas foundations, and, more broadly, inform the world
community about their work and information they may have to share.
Volunteer translators and NGOs from all over the world can become Translation
for Progress members. The Translation for Progress is currently available in
six official languages (Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Russian and
Spanish), and more language version will be added in the future.
We have currently over 600 registered volunteer-translator members
and over 300 NGO members. It is a gathering of really interesting
and talented people and organizations. Just browse our databases
to check them out.
To learn more about us, please visit our site at
http://www.translationsforprogress.org/.
How volunteer translators can offer their help:
http://www.translationsforprogress.org/howtohelp.php
How NGO can use our site: http://www.translationsforprogress.org/howtousetp.php.
We strive to become a lively community. Everybody (members and non-members
alike) is welcome to drop by, check our News and Links pages, and post any
useful links and/or news items from the world of languages, translations, NGOs,
social justice and development issues.
We are also always looking for volunteers who would be willing to help produce
our Newsletter containing articles from the above listed areas. The Translation
for Progress Newsletter team is an informal ever-changing group. You can join
it for as long (or short) you are interested and have free time to participate.
We are looking forward to your visits and possibly even your participation.
Translations for Progress
Partner Organizations
Mother-Child Health International Research Network
The aim of the Mother and Child Health International Research Network is to promote research on mother and child health in developing countries as a critical means toward sustainable development. The Network's major goal is to promote fundamental and applied research projects involving scientists and clinicians from different cultural and socio-economical environments. Its approach is to develop an international scientist-to-scientist network leading to international collaborations and mutual benefits and mutual respect.
Acorn Active Media Foundation
The Acorn Active Media Foundation is an employee-run tech foundation whose members are themselves activists; the projects we work on are chosen based on members' interest in working on them. Our commitment to our friends goes beyond typical business ethics -- we are personally committed to the work that employs us.
read more »
Ayingo Foundation
Ayingo Foundation (AF) aims to use media and technology to provide
information and education on sexually transmitted infections, teen
pregnancy, drug abuse, and violence for young people aged 13 to 25. Since
2004, AF has created several volunteer and outreach opportunities for
youths in the local area.
In 2006-2007, AF will enable 1,300 young people to participate in our Media
to Prevention program. They will be involved in creating short documentaries
that will air on Ayingo Foundation TV (AFTV)- a nonprofit internet TV
station spreading awareness on youth issues.
American Junior Academy of Science
The AJAS mission is to introduce, encourage and accelerate precollege students into the world of science, engineering and technology by enabling and integrating their participation into the social, cultural and scientific activities of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. read more »
Paris Montagne
Paris Montagne le Pari des Sciences
Créé par des étudiants et des chercheurs désireux de partager leur passion des sciences, le festival Paris-Montagne se décline en plusieurs activités. Sa première édition s'est séroulé du 17 au 25 juillet 2006 dans les murs de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, sur la montagne Sainte Geneviève. Entrée gratuite à tous les amoureux des sciences, petits et grands !
UN PARI DE SCIENCES ET D'AVENIR
Donner le goût des sciences - Prouver que la science et la réflexion peuvent être des activités ludiques et stimulantes faisant appel à la créativité et à l'esprit critique. Montrer que la science bouillonne de défis. C'est ce pari que souhaite relever le festival ! read more »
Johnsons Medicom (P) Ltd
Established on 1995
Exclusively for Research and Development read more »
Permafrost Young Researchers Network - PYRN
Gathering more than 200 young researchers throughout the world, the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) is the main resource for young researchers involved in permafrost research. It is an international collaborative effort from students and researchers.
PYRN maintains a website, publishes a monthly newsletter, provides info on jobs, fellowships and conferences in the field of permafrost research and maintains a database on theses published in the field of permafrost studies.
It is also strongly involved in the organisation of the International Polar Year (2007-2008) and other polar-related organisations read more »
International Academy for the Promotion of Scientific Research
The Academy was originally established as a graduate organization at the University of Mississippi in 1974, under the full title of "The American Academy for Chivalric Research". It remained a student society for several years under the leadership of the noted musician and composer Dr. Parks Grant.
Today, the learned society is internationally based and has members in over 25 countries. The Academy is self-governing and independent but has ties with other learned societies around the world. The society has several sections of membership, including: Senior Academician (F.I.A.S.R.), Academician (M.I.A.S.R.) and Associate (A.I.A.S.R.). There is also a section for Patrons/Friends of the Academy.
All levels are by invitation only. The Academy's main goal is to provide a scholarly avenue through which individuals may meet and discuss research interests (natural sciences, social sciences, religious studies, arts, humanities, medicine, environmental sciences and alternative sciences) and provide papers, books and information on the aforementioned topics.
If you are a scholar or scientist and wish to join the IAPSR please read the FAQ section. You can afterwards contact us through our online contact form for membership. Your must be proposed by two Academicians or a member of the Membership Committee. Membership is free but we do expect donations. As a member you will have the privilege to publish articles and other works on the IAPSR website. Some works cannot be accessed by the general public but only by IAPSR members.
Carl Edwin Lindgren, DEd, FCP, FWAAS, FRAS
INDEPENDANT
je suis un indépendant avec une expertise dans le domaine de la santé communautaire et de la santé de la mère et de l'enfant, je serais très heureux d'appuyer des structures interessées pour un développement meilleur en Afrique.
Dr Soliou BADAROU
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
We have changed the name of our organization and have established a new website. Please visit us and become a member today:
www.kent.edu/Polar
Nigerian Community of Young Scientists
A global network of upcoming and young Nigerian scientists between the ages of 15 and 45 years. NICOYS major aim is to promote science, scientists and science career among Nigerians.