From: Richard Gedye <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:44:40 +0000

If there are any researchers or librarians reading this in any of the
115 developing countries reached by the public private Research4Life
initiative (http://www.research4life.org/eligibility/) do check if you
are registered for access to this service by going to
http://www.research4life.org/institutions-registered/.

In the least developed 71 of these countries, the Research4Life
programmes provide free access to up to:

15,000 Journals
33,000 Books
120 other information resources

from over  550 publishers

In the remaining 44 of these countries this content is available for a
subscription payment of US $1,500 per year – an effective discount of
over 99.9%

If you are in any of these countries and your institution is not yet
registered and is a not for profit national university, professional
school (medicine, agriculture, pharmacy, public health, engineering,
etc.), research institute, teaching hospital or healthcare centers,
government office, national library, agricultural extension centers,
or local non-governmental organizations, do go to:

http://www.research4life.org/howtoregister2/

where you will find guidance on how to register.

Thanks.

Richard Gedye

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Richard Gedye
Director of Outreach Programmes
STM

and

Chair, Executive Council
Research4Life

Web: www.research4life.org
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From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:26:45 -0400

Of possible interest.

Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New
York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project
and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly
popular in developing nations where access to academic works is
relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific
articles.

http://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-cracks-down-on-pirated-scientific-articles-150609/