STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media is granting 15,000 students and researchers in Haiti access to its online platform SpringerLink.
Springer will provide students and researchers in Haiti with 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. Access to journal articles and eBook content range from the current year back to 1997.
As Haiti continues to rebuild in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, Bibliothèques sans Frontières (BSF) in partnership with the State University of Haiti is setting up a digital library project. In total, 23 international publishing partners support this initiative to provide immediate and easy access to electronic information resources.
The creation of this innovative library project aims to provide an efficient response to the destruction of 9 of Haiti’s 11 state university libraries. Students and researchers will have access to a vast range of content covering the latest research findings in science, technology, medicine, information technology, humanities, and behavioural and social sciences.
Access to Springer content is temporarily free of charge as ‘help for self-help’ to all users of the State University of Haiti for an initial period from 2011 to 2013. Thereafter, Springer will undertake a thorough review of the usage and impact this access has had for all the users in Haiti.
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