[Ip-health] Nature grants free access for biomedical journals

[Judit Rius Sanjuan]

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Nature grants free access for biomedical journals
Naomi Antony
29 April 2008

Developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America will gain free
access to more than 65 Nature journals, it was announced last week (22
April).

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and INASP (International Network for the
Availability of Scientific Publications) have teamed up to make NPG's
collection of biomedical journals available to more than 20 partner
countries, as part of INASP's Programme for the Enhancement of
Research Information (PERI).

Journals in this collection include Nature, the Nature Clinical
Practice series, NPGresearch journals and the Nature Reviews journals
in life sciences and medicine.

Lucy Browse, head of information delivery at INASP, said that the
decision came as the result of requests from their country
coordination teams to include NPG biomedical journals within PERI.

"[This] inclusion will be of huge benefit to researchers within our
partner countries and also strengthen the resource availability within
the digital libraries," says Browse.

"It means that researchers in approximately 600 libraries [around the
world] will potentially be able to access [these journals]."

Browse told SciDev.Net that INASP cooperates with over 50 publishers
and aggregators to negotiate free or heavily subsidised access for
their partner countries, helping to bridge gaps in research
communication.

"At INASP, our mission is to enhance the research communication cycle
within our partner and network countries =85 Our activities enable
access to research information to be increased in a sustainable way
and also encourage the research outputs and communication of
colleagues in developing countries to reach a global audience," she
says.

According to the NPG and INASP, countries will have access to 2008
content, as well as content published between 2004=962007.

Judit Rius Sanjuan
Attorney at Knowledge Ecology International
www.keionline.org / www.cptech.org
Phone: +1.202.332.2670, x18
Email: judit.rius@keionline.org