Annals of Oncology 13:641-645, 2002
© 2002 European Society for Medical Oncology
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WHO and six publishers launch Access to Research, internet initiative for developing countries
Health-related professionals in ~70 developing countries have gained free access, through the internet, to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical literature. They will benefit from an initiative launched by the World Health Organization and six medical journal publishers, which WHO Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland has described as "perhaps the biggest step ever taken towards reducing the health information gap between rich and poor countries". The Access to Research initiative enables accredited universities, medical schools, research centers and other public institutions in developing countries to gain access to the wealth of scientific information contained in >1000 different biomedical journals produced by these publishers. Until now, subscriptions to these journals, both electronic and print, have been priced uniformly for such institutions, irrespective of geographical location. Many key titles cost more than US$1500 per year, and the average subscription costs several hundred dollars, putting the journals beyond the reach ofPaul Carbone dies from a heart attack in Singapore
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