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International Bioethics Exchange Program

The International Bioethics Exchange Program (IBEP), a new program of the Institute's Library and Information Services area, promotes research and education in bioethics in the developing world. Through IBEP, multiple volumes of the Bibliography of Bioethics, an annual compilation of citations and abstracts to English-language literature, are donated to libraries abroad in order to encourage the development of bioethics reference resources in those countries.

In turn, the IBEP is eager to collect documents about bioethics from the exchange participants. Any books, policy statements, periodicals and other materials about bioethical issues in the participant countries that are donated to IBEP will be added to the collection of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University.

This project relies upon the support of the embassy of the respective country to ship the volumes. Alternatively, IBEP can ship the materials directly. However, rates for media bag shipments were dramatically increased by the United States Postal Service in May 2007. They no longer offer the surface media bag which took 6-8 weeks for delivery. The international airmail media bag cost of shipping 100 pounds of books to Africa, Asia, or Latin America starts at US$400. This method of shipping takes a little over two weeks to reach its destination. The average weight of our donation ranges from 100 to 150 pounds, thus the shipping cost will range from US$400 to US$600. Please contact us for details.

If you would like to help support a library in the developing world, please contact:

Mara R. Snyder, Project Coordinator
International Bioethics Exchange Project
Library and Information Services
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University, Box 571212
Washington, DC 20057-1212 USA
Telephone 202-687-6689.

To date the following countries have become participants in the Project:

Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, The Cameroons, Costa Rica, Croatia, Eritrea, Grenada, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peoples Republic of China, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Korea, Republic of Slovenia, Republic of the Congo, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Romania, Rwanda, St. Lucia, Sierra Leone, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, and Zambia.

Last updated: October 2007