STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media will extend the period of free access to its online platform, Springerlink, through 2015 to 15,000 students and researchers in Haiti, as the country continues to rebuild in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. This donation, initially set to expire in 2013, will provide scientific content from about 2,000 research-level scientific journals, including French-language editions, and the state-of-the-art book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Lecture Notes in Mathematics.
The digital library project in Haiti is being set up by Bibliothèques sans Frontières (BSF) in partnership with the State University of Haiti. In total, 23 international publishing partners support this initiative to provide immediate and easy access to electronic information resources.
This innovative library project comes in response to the destruction of nine of Haiti’s 11 state university libraries. Students and researchers will be given free access to a vast range of content covering the latest research findings in science, technology, medicine, information technology, humanities and behavioural and social sciences.
