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Online Access to Research in the Environment (05/01/07)

Good afternoon everyone:

OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment), is a new initiative that aims to provide scientists in developing countries with free access to online environment journals thus helping to reduce the information gap between developed and developing countries. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. Launched at the end of October 2006, OARE has made over 1,000 scientific journals available to scientists from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Seventy countries whose gross national product (GNP) per capita is below US$1,000 now have free access to the journals and by 2008 OARE will extend to 37 other countries whose GNP is between US$1- 3,000. The institutions in those countries will pay US$1,000 per year for the scheme. Eligible institutions include universities and colleges, research institutes, ministries of the environment and other government agencies, libraries, and non-governmental organisations.

Read more about this, including details on eligibility and the registration process, here http://www.oaresciences.org/en/.

Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat

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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 999 0176; Fax: +41 22 999 0169
E-mail: hails@ramsar.org
Web Site: http://ramsar.org
CEPA mini-Web site: http://ramsar.org/outreach_index.htm

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