KIT Information & Library Services

KIT ILS presents KIT Portals and Dossiers with online (background) information on specific development themes. KIT ILS also co-publishes the Exchange: a quarterly magazine on HIV and AIDS, sexuality and gender. Search4Dev is an online library (repository) for digital documents of Dutch development organizations

KIT develops training material and organizes courses on a variety of subjects related to information management for development.

• Electronic cataloguing
• Use of free and low-cost online databases
• Use of reference management tools
• Training on advanced Internet searching
• Train the Trainers (TtT)

KIT designs and provides advisory services and undertakes research projects to strengthen the role of information management for development. KIT ILS cooperates with libraries in the South to build their institutional capacity. The department is specialized in integrating ICT into development programmes. 

• ICT for development
• Library support programme

Literature search
At KIT you have come to the right place for a fast and efficient literature search conducted by one of our information specialists. They are specialized in the structured search for information on issues related to health, sustainable development, gender and culture in low- and middle-income countries.