The United Nations has partnered with the scientific publishing industry to provide research institutions in least developed countries free access to online journals. This was announced by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at the launch of the scheme in Geneva.
The new UN-brokered programme, Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi), will allow industrial property offices, universities and research institutes to subscribe free of charge to prominent science and technology publications including the American Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Oxford University Press and Royal Society of Chemistry, among others.
The World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) provided advice and expertise gained from similar initiatives which offer access to journals in their respective fields of the UN agencies.
In certain developing countries, low-cost access to a range of key online scientific and technical publications will also be afforded to industrial property offices.
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