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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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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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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