Three Algerian Universities and Tunisian Ministry of Health License Ideal Electronic Library.Business/Technology Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2000 Three Algerian Universities, the University of Tebessa, the University Mentouri de Constantine and the University of Annaba, as well as the Ministry of Health of Tunisia, have signed IDEAL(R) Open Consortium (IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= ) licensing agreements granting access to IDEAL, the pioneering online scientific library. The agreements grant access to IDEAL to approximately 20,000 persons, including staff, students and faculty at the three Algerian universities and government personnel in Tunisia. Researchers in these two countries can now access 176 scientific, technical and medical journals published by Academic Press on IDEAL. "Helping research communities cross digital divides is an express goal of Academic Press," said AP Vice President and Director of Electronic Publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. A.W. Kenneth Metzner, Ph.D. "In licensing IDEAL, these universities in Algeria List of universities in Algeria:
An IOC allows an institution, or a set of cooperating institutions, to gain access to IDEAL without requiring structural, political or geographical relationships among participants or that they belong to or form a traditional consortium. The IOC approach, along with flexible pricing formats for smaller colleges and technical schools, hospitals, professional offices and public libraries, ensures that leading-edge information on IDEAL is widely available via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . IDEAL, the International Digital Electronic Access Library, is now licensed in more than 20 countries by more than 1600 academic institutions and is accessible to nine million authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal worldwide. IDEAL includes titles published by Academic Press, W.B. Saunders Saun´ders n. 1. See Sandress. , Churchill Livingstone Imprint of a medical publishing company owned by Elsevier Ltd, but previously owned by Harcourt and Pearsons. Originally formed from Livingstone, Edinburgh, Scotland, and J & A Churchill, London, UK, and subsequently with an office in New York, but now integrated with the rest of and Bailliere Tindall and soon will include titles by Mosby. IDEAL was developed by Academic Press, a Harcourt Science and Technology company and an international multiple-media publisher of high-quality journals, book serials, major reference works, databases, textbooks and monographs. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 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 and consumer markets. For more information, visit http://www.idealibrary.com IDEAL is a registered trademark of Harcourt, Inc. |
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