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Dissemination and Access
Scientific journal articles are available today to more users at lower cost than ever before. Most researchers have access to the journals they need and that access continues to improve, an extraordinary contribution to the advancement of science. These achievements are the direct result of private sector investment in electronic dissemination and innovations that improve researchers' efficiency and effectiveness.

Programs and partnerships -- involving societies, commercial publishers, libraries, patient health organizations, UN bodies, and government agencies -- are making published research available to even more users. PRISM encourages these initiatives, which are making millions of scholarly articles available to patients and to researchers, scientists and healthcare practitioners in the developing world.


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Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
The HINARI program, set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with major publishers, provides access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3680 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 developing countries.

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patientINFORM.org
patientINFORM.org is a collaborative effort by trusted and experienced patient health organizations, medical societies, health information professionals, and scholarly and medical publishers. The participating voluntary health organizations provide consumers with links to the full text of selected journal articles as soon as they are published, as well as materials created by these groups to help the patient or family member more fully understand the implications of the research. Publishers provide the organizations with online access to their peer-reviewed biomedical journals, immediately upon publication.

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Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture Program
The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, gives developing countries access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 918 journals to institutions in 107 countries in the developing world.

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Online Access in the Environment program
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. It gives developing countries free access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature. Over one thousand scientific journal titles owned and published by over 200 prestigious publishing houses, scholarly societies, and scientific associations are now available in 70 low income countries. Another 36 countries will be added by 2008.

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