From: Richard Gedye <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:50:50 +0200

Research4Life Greatly Expands Peer Reviewed Research Available to
Developing World

Over 7,000 Elsevier books now accessible through HINARI, AGORA, OARE, and ARDI

London, May 16, 2012 -  Research4Life partners announced today that
the content available through its collaborative public-private
partnership has dramatically increased since 2011 to reach 17,000 peer
reviewed scientific journals, books and databases. Research4Life
provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries
with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the
world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. The
recent sharp increase in content is primarily a result of Elsevier’s
contribution of 7,000 books in 2011-2.

The inclusion of Elsevier’s entire SciVerse ScienceDirect ebook
collection follows the publisher’s incremental contributions of 1,700
clinical and science and technology books in 2011. One of the founding
members of Research4Life, Elsevier also makes available over 2,000
electronic journals and SciVerse Scopus, an abstract and citation
database of peer-reviewed literature with over 19,500 titles from
5,000 publishers. In 2006 publishers began pioneering the addition of
ebooks to Research4Life, including ebook contributions from American
Psychiatric Publishing Inc., Oxford University Press, the Worldwatch
Institute, CABI, and most recently, John Wiley and Sons who made their
Current Protocol book series available through HINARI in 2011.

"The developing world benefits enormously from the online book
collections made available by our publisher partners. The new content
is a significant addition, more than doubling Research4Life’s
information resources previously accessible to researchers and
practitioners in low- and middle-income countries," said Kimberly
Parker, HINARI Programme Manager.

One of the beneficiaries of Research4life, Dr. Patrick Kyamanywa,
Dean, Faculty of Medicine National University of Rwanda, welcomes this
significant expansion of the initiative’s ebook content explaining, “A
culture of evidence-based practice can no longer be an option but the
rule. The publishers involved in the HINARI project should be praised
for their commitment to improving access to information to students,
researchers and practitioners in some of the poorest countries in the
world.  Elsevier appears to be leading the way and our hope is that
other publishers will follow suit and help achieve the target of
‘Health Information For All by 2015’”.

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About Research4Life

Research4Life is the collective name for four public-private
partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN's Millennium
Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to
critical scientific research.

Since 2002, the four programmes, Access to Research in Health
(HINARI), Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA),
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) and Access to
Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI), have given researchers
at more than 6,000 institutions in over 100 developing world countries
and territories free or low cost online access to some 17,000
peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases
provided by the world's leading science publishers.

Media contact

Charlotte Masiello-Riome
Research4Life Communications Coordinator
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