About Eldis

Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

What does Eldis offer?

• 24,000 full text documents free to download
  We maintain an ever-growing collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by our editors from more than 4,500 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge
• Eldis resource guides
  Our 24 subject-focused guides offer quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources
• Eldis country profiles 
  Quick access to our database arranged by country, plus quick links to country briefing services on other websites
• Eldis email newsletters
  Our email news services bring the latest research to your mail-box on 35 topics
• Eldis newsfeeds
  Add an Eldis RSS newsfeed to your website or newsreader for the latest information on 25 topics
• News, events and jobs
  Our selection of recent development news, announcements, email newsletters and job adverts

Who we are

Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.

Eldis is core funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID.

Our mission

The aim of Eldis is to:

• support the documentation, exchange and use of evidence-based development knowledge
• communicate this knowledge effectively through a range of appropriately designed services, using the Internet (web and email) as the main communication medium for delivery
• reach audiences of researchers, development practitioners and policy formers at national and international levels
• play a role in the processes of evidence-based policy formation
• provide this information and services free of charge at point of use

Editorial policy

We focus on materials which are of strategic, policy or practical interest for development practitioners based in both the North and South. The target audience includes development professionals, donor agency staff, policy-makers, NGOs, researchers, students, information workers, development communicators, and development-focused web-service providers.  We apply a broad editorial policy in selecting items to include on the website. For more on this see our contribute section.

Copyright policy

IDS is the copyright owner of materials on this website, except where otherwise indicated. You are welcome to use small numbers of Eldis abstracts for non-commercial purposes, provided that each abstract is accompanied by an acknowledgement to Eldis and a link to the Eldis website (either to our home page or to the home page of one of our Resource Guides). If you would like to use more than 100 abstracts (or use abstracts commercially), please contact us for information on our licensing arrangements. For more on this see our terms and conditions.