News Release
International Association of STM Publishers and UN World Intellectual Property Organization
launch “Access to Research for Development and Innovation” (ARDI)
DEVELOPING WORLD PATENT OFFICES RECEIVE ACCESS TO 150 CORE TECHNICAL
PUBLICATIONS
OXFORD/UK – 23 July 2009 -- STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical &
Medical Publishers) today announced a partnership with WIPO (UN World Intellectual
Property Organization) to launch ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation)
providing access to a range of core research technical journals and other serial publications
to patent offices in more than 100 developing countries, including all the 50 Least Developed
Countries. ARDI has the support of the International Publishers Association.
Access will be free to patent offices in the 50 Least Developed Countries and will be at a very
low cost to patent offices in 57 other developing countries. The patent offices and some
approved research and academic institutions will be given direct access to the full content on
the publishers’ web sites. The programme will go live by the end of the year.
Through Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI), STM and WIPO are
increasing resources available to patent offices in some of the poorest countries in the world
where encouraging local innovation is a key element in the development of national
economies. The 150 technical publications on a core list compiled by WIPO are published by
a large number of international publishers: commercial, not for profit, scientific, and
professional.
Initially, selected publications from the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Institute of Physics, Elsevier, the National Academy of Sciences,
Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Sage, Springer Science + Business Media
and Wiley-Blackwell will be available. As other publishers join the programme, more journals
and magazines will be available.
ARDI will run at least for the time span of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (2015)
“STM member publishers are pleased to work with WIPO to increase resources available to
patent offices in more than 100 countries. The new ARDI programme provides free or very
low cost access to a core group of publications. ARDI fits well with “Research4Life”, three
successful UN agency sponsored programmes providing similar access to original research in
health, agriculture and environmental sciences. Jayne Marks, Chair, International Association
of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, Vice President & Editorial Director, Sage
Publications
“The Institute of Physics is pleased to take part in this WIPO programme to accelerate
technical development in the Majority World through access to our journal Measurement
Science and Technology,” said Jerry Cowhig, Managing Director of IOP Publishing
“WIPO is extremely pleased to launch the ARDI programme, a new public-private
partnership with major global scientific and technical publishers and with the support of our
sister UN agencies WHO, FAO and UNEP, as well as the International Association of Scientific,
Technical & Medical Publishers. Access to the knowledge contained in scientific and technical
literature is critical to the innovation process. This complements the valuable access to
technical information contained in patent documents, which WIPO’s Patentscope® search
service already provides. Such practical programs which enable developing and least
developed countries to access and exploit such information effectively are an important
priority for WIPO.” Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General, WIPO
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The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) is a global
trade association with approximately 100 member publishing organisations, both large and
small, and for-profit and not-for-profit, collectively responsible for about 60% of the global
output of research articles each year. STM’s mission is assisting publishers and their authors
with their activities by disseminating results of STM research, assisting national and
international organisations and industries to improve electronic dissemination of STM
information, and working with international and national publishers associations and other
governmental and professional bodies, concerned with these tasks. www.stm-assoc.org
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