Dr. Lucia Prieto Godino is a post doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge who is using JoVE to teach a Drosophila Neurogenetics course at Kampala International University in Uganda.
She will have free access to our journal while she teaches her course, and her students will have access once they return to their home institutions through our partnership with HINARI.
Dr. Godino uses her blog to communicate with her students before the class and recently posted an announcement about JoVE:
Good News For Scientists in Developing Countries
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE) will be offering free subscriptions through the HINARI initiative to developing countries in South America, Asia and Africa.
Drosophila (c) Alex Wild 2005
In 2000 a WHO survey found that 56 percent of institutions in the poorest countries had no current subscriptions to academic journals. In response, WHO founded HINARI, which now grants developing countries access to one of the largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Now JOVE is joining this amazing initiative.
JOVE publishes video articles demonstrating advanced experiments performed in laboratories of top research universities. Visualizing the experiments rather than trying to reproduce them from the often brief materials & methods section of papers is the best way to be able to reproduce previous experiments and set-up new techniques in a lab. This becomes particularly important in developing countries, where learning cutting-edge experimental techniques, whether via courses or by visiting laboratories with the desired expertise, is often very difficult.
We will celebrate this great news by using several JOVE articles as part of the teaching materials in the course.
To read an interview with Dr. Godino about her upcoming course, please click here.
