Philanthropy
Annual Reviews' Principles of Dissemination of Scientific Information and Journal Donation Programs
Annual Reviews is a non-profit organization created and managed by scientists to serve science by publishing reviews in 40 different scientific fields. Annual Reviews' mission is to intelligently synthesize scientific literature in a review format and to ensure that this information is then widely distributed and easily available.
Consistent with its non-profit status, Annual Reviews sets its prices at a level sufficient to recover costs and permit the development of new series. The prices are among the lowest in all scientific literature.
Annual Reviews provides its reviews free or at very low cost to libraries and institutions throughout the developing world. To obtain more information, please contact marketing@annualreviews.org.
Annual Reviews participates in the following programs:
HINARI - Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
http://www.healthinternetwork.org
The World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to WHO-approved academic institutions in the developing world.
HINARI was launched in January 2002 with more than 1200 journals. Since that time, the number of participating publishers, journals and other full-text resources has grown continuously and now includes over 2700 biomedical and related social science journals.
AGORA - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
AGORA - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
http://www.aginternetwork.org
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) is an initiative to provide free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries.
The goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security. Launched in October 2003, AGORA provides access to 700+ journals from the world's leading academic publishers to FAO- approved institutions in the developing world.
HINARI and AGORA will continue to have a positive impact on the ability of developing world scientists to find solutions and solve their own health and food crises. They will ensure that developing world scientists are part of the global scholarly community and that doctors and agriculturalists practicing in the region have access to up-to-date information.
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
http://www.inasp.info/peri/index.shtml
PERI is a program that support capacity building in the research sector in developing and transitional countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information & knowledge. PERI is managed by INASP (the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications).
Nestlé Foundation e-Library for Nutrition and Nutrition Research (enLink)
http://www.enlink.org
The initiative of electronic nutrition LINK (enLINK) was created in 2003 as a capability building tool to bridge the digital divide in nutrition and health. The Nestlé Foundation has partnered with Ovid Technologies to create a collection of information resources in the area of nutrition and health including a selection of full text from key nutrition journals. Access to complete texts is available to registered users from low income countries.
TEEAL - The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library
http://teeal.cornell.edu/
TEEAL is a full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world's most important scientific journals selected by 600 international scientists as the most essential to research and education in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, as listed in the World Bank's 1998-9 World Development Report.
The Journal Donation Project of the New School University
http://www.newschool.edu/centers/jdp/index.htm
The mission of The Journal Donation Project of the New School University is to assist in rebuilding major research and teaching libraries in countries that have fallen victim to political or economic deprivation through the provision of current subscriptions and back volume sets of English language scholarly, professional and current events journals. The Journal Donation Project has grown from a small project based entirely on the donation of subscriptions, into a major library assistance program, providing nearly 6,000 gratis and reduced-cost subscriptions per year to approximately 300 libraries.
