Relief Central is a free mobile and web resource developed by the staff of Unbound Medicine to provide helpful information for disaster relief.  This ongoing initiative delivers the latest information at the point of need to relief workers, first responders, and anyone working in the field, helping them assess damage, learn about the geographic location, view journal citations and abstracts, and access the latest news.

A free, comprehensive e-book on the diseases of Haiti provided by GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network).

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 access to over 2,990 peer reviewed titles on environmental science research.

OARE Eligibility Information

Health information from the National Library of Medicine intended for patients. Easy access to Medline and Health topics, medical dictionaries, directories and publications. Available in multiple languages.

Freely accessible toxicology, environmental health, and chemical databases and other information resources from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

The NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) is a freely accessible bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

PubMed is a freely accessible bibliographic database that comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDNLINE and life science journals.  Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites. 

Access PubMed (No PennKey required)

Access PubMed Plus (PennKey required)

ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa) is a capacity building organization aimed at enhancing information and communications technology (ICT) skills for African librarians, information specialists, scientists, researchers and students in Sub-Sahara Africa. 

ITOCA spearheads programme support for TEEAL, AGORA, HINARI and OARE in the region.

ITOCA Training Schedule

TEEAL is a full-text digital library of 149 agricultural journals made available at low cost to universities, agricultural research organizations and government ministries in eligible low-income countries. Journal coverage starts in the 1990s and is updated annually. TEEAL has a searchable database of citations from CAB Abstracts, BIOSIS, Econlit and PubMed. TEEAL is an offline tool – no Internet or phone line required – that you can share on a local area network, or use on a standalone PC.

TEEAL Eligibility Information

The 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 1278 journals to institutions in 107 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.

AGORA Eligibility Information

Free access to a continuously updated selection of original research papers on influenza. Access is free through the end of March 2010.

A freely accessible collection of reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important materials from government agencies and other trusted sources, brought together by ebrary.

A collection of free resources organized by CABI, including links to selected abstracts from CABI's databases, updates from CABI's blog, a feed of valuable information selected by subject experts, free access to CABI’s Global Health database that includes prepared searches, and the latest updates from the Center for Disease Control and World Health Organisation.

Free, continuously updated flu information resources from EBSCO.  Includes evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center.

The HINARI Programme, 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 6400 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 108 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.

HINARI Eligibility Information

The One Health Initiative, a movement to forge co-equal, all inclusive collaborations between physicians, veterinarians, and other scientific-health related disciplines, has been endorsed by various major medical organizations and health agencies, including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Society for Microbiology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

IBM Advances Research Through Cloud Computing to Help Solve Real-World Problems

Builds Cloud Computing Environments for Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar University, Texas A&M University at Qatar, University of Pretoria, HEALTH Alliance and Kyushu University

See web site for more info on "Areas of Excellence," which Alcoa funds:

Conservation & Sustainability

Demonstrating our commitment to conservation by educating young leaders, protecting our forests, promoting sound public policy research, and understanding the linkages between business and the environment.

Global Education & Workplace Skills

Broadening student and adult participation through education in technical areas central to Alcoa to ensure that a diverse cross-section of our communities is economically connected, workplace ready and globally competitive.

Business & Community Partnerships

Seeding notions of corporate citizenship community by community to strengthen the non-profit sector and to develop meaningful partnerships among non-profits, the private sector and local government.