AFRO-NETS> E-mail delivers scientific papers to poor nations

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@mweb.co.zw>]

E-mail delivers scientific papers to poor nations
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by Katie Mantell

Source: http://www.scidev.net/

Researchers in the world?s poorest nations where Internet connec-
tions can be slow or prohibitively expensive can now receive some 
scientific papers free of charge by electronic mail. 

The eJournals Delivery Service, which began operating in January, al-
lows developing-world scientists to search and download up to three 
articles per day from selected journals using e-mail only. 

Several publishing companies have joined the programme, including 
Academic Press, the American Physical Society and World Scientific. 

The initiative  launched by the Abdus Salam International Centre for 
Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Third World Academy of Sciences 
(TWAS), both based in Trieste, Italy comes on the heels of a number 
of programmes that aim to increase the availability of scientific 
literature in developing countries by providing free or cut-price ac-
cess to the electronic version of scientific journals.

But in some areas, scientists have found it difficult to take up the 
offers because, although they have e-mail, they do not have full 
Internet connections.

"People cannot get to the journals if they do not have good Internet 
access," says Hilda Cerdeira, Head of the ICTP/ TWAS Donation Pro-
gramme. "We have provided the last link."

© SciDev.Net 2002

For more information see:
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/

For an application form:
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/index-i.html

or contact:
eJournals Delivery Service
ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme
P.O.Box 586
34100 Trieste, Italy
Fax: +39-40-2240-633

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