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Innocent or deliberate omission? E-Health Partnerships in Low Income Nations

Tweet I was reading a recent  interesting article, A Toolkit For E Health Partnerships In Low-Income Nations,  in a non-open access journal, Health Affairs, expecting to find some mention of open access biomedical publishing playing some sort of major or minor role in this toolkit.  I also knew that the publisher of this journal was originally on board and [...]

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Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

HINARI and open access- together in a PubMed search

Tweet The Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), introduced by the United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN Millennium Summit in the year 2000, continues to provide free or very low cost online access to  major biomedical literature to not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.  Initially six international publishing  companies responded to Annan’s call to [...]

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Tue, February 9 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment

Emergency Access Initiative- a temporary solution with permanent need

Tweet Well, I was quite excited about today’s announcement of the  Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a timely partnership of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) , the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), and the Professional & Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and other publishers. Then I began to [...]

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Tue, January 26 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment