Hi Richard
Thank you for the update. It is obviously very pleasing to see publishers reversing their decision to start charging one of the poorest countries in the world for access.
Could you help with one other area of confusion. This article in the Lancet:
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673611600676.pdf
suggests that free access through HINARI has been withdrawn in almost half of the 60-odd countries that meet the eligibility criteria - i.e., the poorest of the poor (see the second paragraph on page 3). That that correct?
Best wishes
David
On 28 Jan 2011, at 10:14, Richard Gedye wrote:
> After the flurry of concerned postings to various forums regarding the
> availability in Bangladesh in 2011 of journal titles from a number key
> publishers, I thought that readers might appreciate a brief summary of
> the current state of play from my vantage point as a representative of
> the International Association of STM Publishers (STM), one of the 13
> main HINARI programme partners.
>
> Of the five publishers mentioned in the original BMJ article at
> http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d196.full :-
>
> * ELSEVIER have reinstated access
>
> http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673611600688.p
> df
>
> * AAAS have reinstated access
>
> http://dgroups.org/ViewDiscussion.aspx?c=e95b885f-14b0-4452-a819-06cf188
> ee6b0&i=6f928e6b-dae0-48b0-adaa-75539d227620
>
> * Lippincott Williams and Wilkins have emailed me to confirm they
> will be reinstating access
>
> * SPRINGER have not distributed their online journals in
> Bangladesh via HINARI for the last five years. Access in Bangladesh to
> the Springer content is via INASP. Springer have posted an announcement
> to this effect
> http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/pressreleases?SGWID=3D0-110
> 02-6-1067521-0.
>
> * THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE: the inclusion of the
> ASAS in the list of access excluders was incorrect - an error in the
> HINARI administration system for which, on behalf of HINARI, I
> apologise. ASAS's Journal of Animal Science continues to be available
> throughout Bangladesh in 2011 as it has been in 2010.
>
> The International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical
> Publishers (STM) has for the past ten years been a key partner in the
> HINARI programme. STM supports HINARI because we believe it is
> the most effective way of maximising access to readers within the
> currently predominant business model that recovers publication costs via
> a charge on readers or their institutions. At the launch of HINARI in
> 2002, 400 institutions in 68 of the world's poorest countries gained
> access to up to 1500 medical research journals to which they previously
> did not have access. Today these figures are 4600, 105, and 7400
> respectively.
>
> Whatever the business model involved in recovering the costs of
> publishing peer-reviewed research journals, it seems logical and fair
> that arrangements should be put in place that allow these costs to be
> waived for beneficiaries in the world's least developed economies. The
> open access business model frequently recovers publication costs from
> authors or their research funders and it is reassuring to hear from
> postings to various forums over the last couple of weeks that the major
> players in this space also have arrangements for their charges to be
> waived for authors in the world's least developed economies.
>
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