[InetBib] HINARI

[Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I wonder what Klaus will say after reading
the latest information from Knowledgespeak

Jan

Publishers to provide developing nations with access to scientific 
literature - 12 Jul 2007

More than 100 STM publishers, including Elsevier, Springer and 
Blackwell, and three UN organisations (WHO, FAO and UNEP) have announced 
the extension of programmes that provide free, or almost free, access to 
online peer-reviewed journals to several developing nations that lack 
access to information and training. Information technology leader 
Microsoft has also announced its support of technical assistance to 
enhance access to online research for scientists, policymakers, and 
librarians in these countries.

The three sister programmes – HINARI (research on health), AGORA 
(research on agriculture) and OARE (research in the environment) - 
provide online research access to more than one hundred of the world’s 
poorest countries. All three programmes have official commitment from 
their partners until 2015, marking the target for reaching the 
Millennium Development Goals.

In a World Health Organisation (WHO) survey conducted in 2000, 
researchers and academics in developing countries ranked access to 
subscription based journals as one of their most pressing problems. In 
countries with per capita income of less than $1000 per annum, 56 
percent of academic institutions surveyed had no current subscriptions 
to international journals. These three programmes, which are in line 
with the UN Millennium Development Goals, hope to solve this problem and 
make research as easily accessible in countries such as Sierra Leone as 
it is in England and the USA.

Click here 
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00698> 
to read the original press release.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00698


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