Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. It is core funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID. Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

They maintain a large collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by their editors from more than 7,500 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge. Their 24 subject-focused guides offer quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources. They also provide access to their database arranged by country and quick links to country briefing services on other websites. Their email news services includes latest research on 35 topics, recent development news, announcements and job adverts.