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WHO Launches Online Medical Library
WHO Launches Online Medical Library
February 1, 2002
The World Health Organization (WHO) and six of the world's largest
publishers of medical journals on Thursday launched a project to
enable medical experts in developing countries to gain access, via
the Internet, to medical literature which they could previously
obtain only by paying high subscription fees.
The 'Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative' will allow
thousands of doctors, researchers, health policy-makers and others to
have access for free or at significantly reduced charges to "one of
the world's largest collections of biomedical literature", WHO said
in a news release on Thursday. During the project's first stage, more
than 1,000 journals will be available to people in 70 countries. The
project's second stage will target other developing countries.
The online project, which is expected to run for an initial three-
year period, is part of a larger initiative, the Health InterNetwork
project, which aims to strengthen public health services by giving
specialists access to relevant and reliable medical information.
Information will come from journals published by Blackwell, Elsevier
Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer
International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley.
WHO Director-General Gro Harlem described 'Access to Research' as a
big step towards "reducing the information gap between rich and poor
countries".
[The address of the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
website is http://www.healthinternetwork.net.]
source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200202010513.html
