Scientists get free access to environment journals - SciDev.Net:
"Over 1,000 scientific journals are available to scientists from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America through the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) scheme, launched last month (30 October) by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and US-based Yale University.
Seventy countries whose gross national product (GNP) per capita is below US$1,000 now have free access to the journals.
By 2008, access to OARE will extend to 37 other countries whose GNP is between US$1- 3,000. The institutions in those countries will pay US$1,000 per year for the scheme."
What a great idea. I would suspect Gus Speth, dean of Yale's Environment School, deserves much credit for this initiative.
Monday, November 13, 2006
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John: I'm a regular reader of your blog. Thanks for the steady stream of news and comment.
On this SciDev.Net story: If you're interested in progress toward free online access to peer-reviewed science, in developing countries and worldwide, I cover it every day on my blog, Open Access News.
Best,
Peter
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