Online Sources Making Science Available in LDCs Word Well

Source: Elsevier Press Release,17 July 2008.

HINARI, AGORA and OARE, three unique public-private partnerships, are working with the UN’s millennium goals to provide the developing world with access to critical research. 'Over the past five years, 6000 journals with a subscription value of £3m per year have been made available to researchers in 4,000 developing world institutions, via these three programs.

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A recent impact analysis conducted by Elsevier, has shown that over the five-year period from 2002-2006, 105 HINARI countries saw a 63 percent growth in the number of authors publishing in peer-reviewed journals, compared to 38 percent in 102 non-HINARI countries – indicating that HINARI has had a significant impact on the participant countries’ ability to engage with the global scientific community.'

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