Three international programmes aimed at giving free or low-cost information access to researchers in the world's poorest countries have seen impressive growth in their numbers of registered institutions
The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for its 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars programmes
ICTP arranges free access to the SPIE Digital Library to researchers and students in more than 90 countries.
Free and low-cost access to health research in developing countries is boosting research output, according to the HINARI Access to Research Initiative.
The Geological Society of London will make all the content from its digitised publications freely available to researchers in developing countries.
Three programmes that provide free, or almost free, access to online peer-reviewed journals for researchers in more than 100 of the world's poorest countries have been officially extended to 2015.
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