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Dissemination Through Information Philanthropy
How you can support information philanthropy
- Help promote use of resources listed here
- Encourage colleagues from developing nations to sign up for programs listed here
- Point colleagues from developing nations to websites listed here
- Point colleagues to the list of eligible nations at www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en
Elsevier seeks to ensure that nations with the least resources have adequate opportunity to build research capabilities, contribute to global scholarly knowledge and use science to solve problems. As part of our commitment to information philanthropy, we participate in partnerships making access to electronic journals free or virtually free for many thousands of researchers worldwide. “Virtually free” refers to the very small access fee charged to institutions receiving journal access through a few such partnerships.
Our partnerships to benefit underresourced researchers and librarians worldwide include the United Nations-sponsored HINARI, OARE and AGORA programs, efforts we’ve supported since their launch. Recently, we underscored our commitment to these programs by opening to all three the same extensive list of journals on ScienceDirect. Additionally, we support other philanthropic endeavors including the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics and Book Aid International and Sabre Foundation. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics is expressly organized to expand dissemination of electronic scholarly journals. Below are details on our participation in these endeavors.
Further, through The Elsevier Foundation, founded in 2002, we offer diverse types of support to organizations including libraries worldwide.
HINARI
Through the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative, public institutions in developing nations receive free online access to major journals in the biomedical and related social science fields. Among founding publishers involved since HINARI's 2003 launch, Elsevier provides over 1,200 journal titles to HINARI and is its largest contributor of content. In 2006, over 1.5 million HINARI-affiliated downloads were made from Elsevier journals. This activity represented 30% of the 5 million downloads made throughout the entire HINARI collection.
OARE
Through Online Access to Research in the Environment, a new global partnership was launched in October 2006. Managed by the United Nations Environment Programme and Yale University in conjunction with the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, this partnership involves 35 leading science and technology publishers and 100 of the world’s most prestigious scientific societies, associations and foundations. Through OARE, 1,000 public and nonprofit environmental institutions in more than 100 of the least-developed nations receive access to over 1,000 peer-reviewed environmental science journals.
AGORA
Through Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, researchers, policy makers, educators, technical workers and extension specialists receive access to high-quality information in agriculture and related fields. Inspired by HINARI’s success, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization worked with publishers and established AGORA in 2004. Elsevier is among AGORA’s founding publishers and provides beneficiary institutes with access to the same extensive list of online journals as provided to institutes benefiting from HINARI and OARE. In the past two years, these users have logged 10,000 fulltext downloads per month on ScienceDirect.
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Through the ICTP’s pioneering e-Journals Delivery Service, scientists in developing countries receive free access to Elsevier journals in physics, mathematics and computer science.
Book Aid International and Sabre Foundation
Through partnerships with Book Aid International and the Sabre Foundation, Elsevier sponsors library growth in developing countries by donating surplus stock of print publications and supporting additional donation programs.
The Elsevier Foundation
Making grants and contributions throughout the world, The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier and reflects the company’s culturally diverse, global organization. In 2007, the foundation launched two new programs: the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program to provide grants to improve the capacity of developing world libraries through training, infrastructure, technology, digitization and preservation of STM information, and also the New Scholars Program to encourage the participation of women in academic science and technology. The foundation’s other granting programs include the Innovative Library Access Program.
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