IDEAL Charter for Low-Income Countries Brings Digital Information to Senegal.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2001 The Universite Cheikh Anta Diop Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December, 1923–7 February, 1986) was a Senegalese historian and anthropologist who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. de Dakar in the West African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. nation of Senegal has signed the first licensing agreement delivered through the IDEAL Charter for Low-Income Countries -- Harcourt's philanthropic initiative making electronic journals affordable to very poor nations. Through this license, universities, research centers, and teaching hospitals across Senegal may access the over 300 journals in science, technology and medicine on IDEAL(R) -- at http://www.idealibrary.com. Along with the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Universite Gaston Berger Gaston Berger (1896-1960) was a French futurist, who created the Centre International de Prospective in Paris. He wrote a remarkably lucid analysis of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology. de Saint-Louis in Senegal is initially participating in the first charter license. As connectivity becomes more widespread in Senegal, a nation of about 10 million, more institutions will take advantage of this licensing agreement. The IDEAL Charter offers nationwide licenses, meaning that once a license is purchased in a country, any technologically ready and eligible institution there may access IDEAL journals without paying any additional licensing fee. Further details about the charter initiative appear at http://www.academicpress.com/www/ideal/charter.htm. The Universite Cheikh Anta Diop is funding Senegal's IDEAL charter license out of the acquisitions budget of the university's library, directed by Dr. Henri Sene. Dr. Sene commented: "We are glad and very proud to be the first nation to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; IDEAL through the Charter for Low-Income Countries. And we look forward to additional Senegalese institutes coming aboard this license, and so benefiting from the research advantages provided by IDEAL." Scientific associations currently endorsing the IDEAL Charter include IASTMP (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers), INASP INASP International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) was established in 1992 by the International Council for Science (ICSU) to "improve access to information and knowledge through a commitment to capacity building in emerging and developing countries. ), and TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world -- until 2004 named Third World Academy of Sciences -- is a merit-based science academy uniting more than 800 scientists from some 90 countries. ). TWAS Executive Director Mohamed H.A. Hassan said: "Your efforts to close the digital divide through making online journals affordable for low-income countries certainly form a worthy goal, one which carries important implications for science and technology across the South." Researchers in poor nations are voicing support for publisher-led initiatives such as the charter. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr. Bruce Dahlman, with Moi University Moi University is a university in Eldoret, western Kenya. It is one of seven national higher education institutions, the others being the University of Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University, Maseno University, Egerton University,Western University College of Science and Technology and in Eldoret, Kenya: "The need for current, accessible medical information has never been greater in certain African countries. At Moi University's Faculty of Health Sciences, we are developing a family-practice education program in rural areas. This requires ongoing access to authoritative medical information. "Thus, we enthusiastically welcome Harcourt's generosity in creating the IDEAL Charter. Resources like IDEAL could tremendously strengthen our ability to gain funding for teaching centres and health clinics. And greater electronic access to scientific findings could indeed transform how we teach and practice medicine in nations facing the most dire need." The charter initiative continues Harcourt's tradition of innovation. In 1995, Academic Press -- a Harcourt company -- helped revolutionize the publishing industry by launching IDEAL, an Internet-based resource library for STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. researchers. Academic Press is also a founding member of CrossRef -- a collaborative linking effort which allows researchers to move with unprecedented freedom and speed through most online literature across a wide range of fields. Today, 71 publishers are participating in CrossRef, and IDEAL journals contain a large number of CrossRef links -- immediately taking researchers from reference citations to cited articles throughout the Web. The online library of the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, IDEAL is licensed in 33 countries by approximately 2,200 academic institutions and industrial and pharmaceutical companies and is accessible to over 10 million authorized users. IDEAL contains 143 journals from Harcourt Health Sciences and 177 from Academic Press, and offers IDEALReferenceWorks encyclopedias and access to SciVision's informatics products. Academic Press is a Harcourt Science and Technology Company and part of Harcourt's Worldwide Scientific, Technical and Medical Group. Academic Press is an international multiple-media publisher of high-quality journals, book serials, major reference works, databases, textbooks and monographs. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Harcourt, Inc., Harcourt General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : H) is a leading global multiple-media publisher, providing educational, training and assessment products and services to classroom, corporate, professional, research, medical and consumer markets. IDEAL is a registered trademark of Harcourt, Inc. More information about IDEAL and the charter initiative is available at http://www.idealibrary.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. 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