------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: IRIN <[log in to unmask]> To: George Lessard <[log in to unmask]> Date sent: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:32:24 GMT Subject: GLOBAL: WHO launches online medical library U N I T E D N A T I O N S Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) GLOBAL: WHO launches online medical library ABIDJAN, 1 February (IRIN) - 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 [ENDS] [This Item is Delivered to the "Africa-English" Service of the UN's IRIN humanitarian information unit, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. For further information, free subscriptions, or to change your keywords, contact e-mail: [log in to unmask] or Web: http://www.irinnews.org . If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this item, please retain this credit and disclaimer. Reposting by commercial sites requires written IRIN permission.] Copyright (c) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2002 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>