Jstor and Project Muse for free?

JSTOR and Project Muse are an academic's best friend. However those from developing countries often find themselves having difficulty in accessing these scientific archives. Good thing, the Global Development Network allows eligible researchers access to scientific and academic journals.

Registering with GDN also allows you to be a member of a robust development network, with annual awards for best papers of young academics, too.

This was lifted from GDN's site:

"In cooperation with J-Stor, GDN offers Free Access to J-Stor Collection to GDNet Registered Eligible Researchers. Through J-Stor, registered researchers can retrieve scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. These options are designed to provide flexibility for libraries and institutions to choose the sets of journals and collection that are appropriate for their needs.

GDN has granted access to J-Stor Journal Collection to GDNet Registered Eligible Researchers on the Knowledge Base. Researchers will be provided with access to Business I and II and Arts and Science II and VI Collections.The current Collection brings together titles in Economics, Finance, Education, Social Sciences, Political Science, Archaeology, Marketing, Managements and more.

To access any of the collections stated above, please log into your profile available on the GDNet website using your username and password (www.gdnet.org/update ). Once you are logged in, please click over “Your registered services” and choose J-STOR."

If you are not a member of GDNet researchers’ community, please feel free to register your profile online(www.gdnet.org/register) and benefit from other online servicesavailable(www.gdnet.org/online-services)."

So what scholarships are available for you?

Wanna get a scholarship abroad? How about starting to have a beeline for the following annual deadlines?

I know many of my former students, friends and colleagues are also interested to study abroad. So I thought of writing some of the scholarship links here with their annual deadlines.

UN University for Peace, Costa Rica Feb 28
US Fulbright Fellowships MA/MS/PhD/Postdoc enrichment March 28
Taiwan MS/PhD Scholarships March 31
Taiwan’s Academia Sinica MS/PhD/Post-doc scholarship April 11
Japanese Monbusho MA/MS/PhD Scholarships May 30
Mexican Government MA/MS/PhD/Postdoc Scholarships Aug 7
Germany’s DAAD MA/MS/PhD Scholarships August 30, Sept 30, Oct 15
Zentrum fuer Entwicklungsforschung, Germany
AIT Thailand Oct 31
Korean Development Institute Oct 31
Malaysian Scholarship for International Students Dec 31
Australian Development Scholarships
European Union’s Erasmus Mundus
NUS ASEAN ScholarshipsNetherlands Scholarships
Belgian Scholarships

you might want to see these lists too:
http://freestudiesabroad.blogspot.com/
http://www.filipinoscholar.com
http://www.getscholarship.net/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/10resources/

or you may contact a professor in a department in any Hongkong Uni, and inquire how to obtain a graduate scholarship

International Development Studies, PhD in Guelph, Canada

This blog will be a work in progress. See additional links soon.