Improving accessibility to development literature : some activities of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Date

1981

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Library, IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA

Abstract

Article on information science activities, supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre, which result in improved bibliographic control and document delivery of socio-economic development literature of the Third World. Discusses socio-economic cooperative information systems, the strengthening of national information infrastructures and a project whereby remote on-line access to selected development-oriented data bases is provided to the Canadian research community.

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Also published in Library acquisitions : practice and theory, v. 6, 1982, p.117-122

Keywords

IDRC, INFORMATION SCIENCES, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, DEVSIS, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, DATABASES

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