Hi Richard
I'm afraid that if there was a response to this query on the number of countries that receive free access under HINARI I missed it. Is it the case that almost half the countries that meet the eligibility criteria for free access are being asked for payment?
Best wishes
David
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> From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 28 January 2011 12:02:25 GMT
> To: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] HINARI and Bangladesh
>
> 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:
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> http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673611600676.pdf
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> suggests that free access through HINARI has been withdrawn in almost half of the 60-odd countries that meet the eligibility criteria - i.e., the poorest of the poor (see the second paragraph on page 3).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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>> Richard Gedye
>> Director of Publishing Outreach Programmes
>> STM
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>> Oxford
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