WHO, MEDICAL PUBLISHERS IN EFFORT TO OFFER LOW-COST SUBSCRIPTIONS.Working with the British Medical Journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other and the Open Society of the Soros Foundation A Soros Foundation is one of a network of national foundations, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, which fund volunteer socio-political activity, created by George Soros, international financier and self-proclaimed philanthropist, and coordinated since early 1994 by a management Network, WHO has enlisted the publishers to participate in its Health InterNetwork project. The aim of the InterNetwork is to strengthen health care services by offering medical, health and scientific information through an Internet portal. The participating publishers include Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide 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. Group, Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley & Sons. The World Health Organization (Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. ) and the world's six largest medical journal publishers have established a new initiative designed to enable professionals in developing countries to gain access to scientific journals that they could not otherwise afford. The new arrangement agreed to by the publishers would allow almost 1000 of the world's leading medical and scientific journals to become available through the Internet to medical schools and research institutions in developing countries for free or at deeply-reduced rates. The initiative will launch in January 2002 and is expected to last at least three years. It will offer a tiered- pricing system that is expected to make nearly 1000 of the 1240 top international STM journals available to institutions in the 100 poorest countries free of charge or at significantly reduced rates. |
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