International Community Services

Mann Library's international outreach focuses on bridging the information divide. In collaboration with major publishers, international development agencies and private foundations, it is engaged in several programs that enable scientists and students in the developing world to access current scholarship in agriculture, environment, health and biomedicine at little or no cost.

AGORA provides free web access to hundreds of major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to research institutions in the developing world. AGORA is led by the Food and Agriculture Organization in partnership with major scientific publishers, Mann Library and others. It derives from the digital agricultural library TEEAL, produced at Mann Library, and HINARI, the medical counterpart to AGORA. For more information, visit: www.aginternetwork.org, or contact Mary Ochs, at: mao4@cornell.edu .

TEEAL provides affordable access to over a hundred scientific journals addressing agriculture and rural development to universities and agricultural research centers in the developing world. It is available for local area network (LAN) or as a set of compact discs (CDs). TEEAL's journal subscriptions at 1993 and continue to the present. For more information, please visit: www.teeal.org or e-mail us at: teeal@cornell.edu .

ACCI is a plant breeding Ph.D. program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg that receives Mann Library reference and information services to both supplement the University library's existing resources and to help students when they are in the field conducting research. For more information, please contact Camille Andrews, at: ca92@cornell.edu .