STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that 780 of its science and technology e-books will be added to Research4Life.
Research4Life is the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private partnerships that offer health, agriculture and environmental research for free or at very low cost to developing countries. Key partners include the World Health Organization, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers and technology partner, Microsoft. Over 150 publishers, among them Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and Oxford University Press, provide their journal content.
A founding partner, Elsevier claims to be the leading contributor to the UN's Research4Life programmes, providing over a quarter of the peer reviewed literature. Through these programmes Elsevier makes over 1,600 electronic journals available for free or at very low cost in developing countries. In December 2009, Elsevier also announced that Sciverse Scopus will be made freely available throughResearch4Life. Sciverse Scopus is a web-integrated literature research tool with direct links to 18,000 full-text articles from 5,000 publishers, citation information, library resources, patent searches and reference management software.
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