Access to research for the developing world
More than 100 publishers and three UN organizations agreed in July to provide developing countries with inexpensive online subscriptions to peer-reviewed research journals until 2015. Publications are available through the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), and Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE).
"HINARI–AGORA–OARE removes many of the barriers that we in the developing world have been facing in accessing published literature," said Mohamed Jalloh, a physician from Dakar, Senegal, at the press conference announcing the agreement. The environmental research in the OARE collection will give developing-country scientists "access to the same quality of information as [researchers have] in the developed world," adds Serge Bounda of the UN Environment Programme.
