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Chicago Journals partners with INASP’s PERI initiative to provide electronic
journals content to developing nations

The University of Chicago Press is delighted to announce its support of the
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication’s (INASP)
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). Effective
immediately, electronic access to all journals published by the University of
Chicago Press will be made available at little or no charge to institutions in
the developing world that meet INASP qualifications for participation through
the Chicago Emerging Nations Initiative (CENI), launched last year.

“We are honored to add PERI to the growing list of program partners through
which our colleagues in emerging nations can gain access to the latest content
published by Chicago Journals,” said Kate Duff, Licensing and Permissions
Manager at the University of Chicago Press. “PERI’s commitment to increasing
access to scientific and scholarly research in the developing world
acknowledges the important role information and knowledge can play in
development.”

Scholars, librarians, teachers, and students in more than 110 emerging nations
receive access to electronic and print editions of journals published by the
University of Chicago Press through the CENI program. Other CENI partners
include the World Health Organization’s Health InterNetwork Access to Research
Initiative (HINARI); the United Nation’s Access to Global Online Research in
Agriculture (AGORA) and Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
programs; the Access Africa Initiative, sponsored by JSTOR; the Association of
Commonwealth Universities Low-Cost Journal Scheme; and the Journal Donation
Project based at the New School for Social Research.

For more information on CENI or any of its partners, please visit:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ceni/index.html.

About INASP: An international nonprofit development charity with programs
dedicated to capacity building in the research sector of developing and
transitional countries, INASP has been establishing access to information and
providing support and training to the developing world since 1999. One of its
many programs, PERI supports research by facilitating access to global
information and supporting publication of in-country research findings. It also
provides information skills training for researchers, practitioners, librarians,
and publishers.

About the University of Chicago Press: Founded in 1891, the University of
Chicago Press is the largest American university press. The Journals Division
currently publishes forty-seven award-winning periodicals and serials in a wide
range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly
publications in their respective fields. Online since 1995, the Journals
Division has also been a pioneer in electronic publishing, delivering original,
peer-reviewed research from international scholars to a worldwide audience.


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