[LIS-Forum] Fwd: A new development at Bioline

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

The Bioline group, publishers of many open access journals from the
developing world, is conducting a survey with a view to making their
service better. Please circulate the letter among the researchers in your
institutions.

Thanks and best wishes.

Subbiah Arunachalam



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barbara Kirsop <barbarakirsop at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:07 PM
Subject: A new development at Bioline
To: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com> and others
Cc: Dora Canhos <dora at cria.org.br>, Sidnei Souza <sidnei at cria.org.br>


Dear All.

I think you will be interested to learn that Bioline International, the
platform supporting the global distribution of research published in
developing countries, is very heavily used, and Bioline management in
Brazil and Toronto want to find out who all these users are and why they
find articles available from the site so valuable. So we have just launched
a brief survey to find some answers to these questions. We want to make
Bioline as useful as possible to the research community and hope users will
take part in this exercise. The survey, developed by CRIA, is very short to
complete, so if you have contacts with users or potential users, please let
them know about this development.

Maybe we shall find out if users are mainly from the developing world, or
from the rest of the research community who are discovering new and
important research for the first time. Maybe we shall learn how a
particular article led to the completion of a project and a publication?
Maybe a single article has led to the formation of new research contacts
and subsequent partnerships. Maybe we shall learn how Open Access to this
resource has been important in providing new opportunities for low budget
organisations, since BI is entirely OA. Maybe we shall learn that Bioline
is an easy-to-use resource. Maybe a single article provided the *eureka*
key to solving a problem. Maybe it led to career development?

We shall analyse the results of the survey and report our findings, which
may be of value to other communities. Just link to the Bioline site at
http://www.bioline.org.br/ to see the Survey link, and from the Survey form
you can link to the Results.

Kind regards,

The Bioline Team



-- 
Arun

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
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