John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that its 12,200 Online Books
would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA andOARE,
benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and
middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia.
Research4Life provides
6,000 institutions in developing countries with free or low cost access
to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific,
technical and medical publishers. The addition of Wiley’s Online Books
brings the total number of peer reviewed scientific journals, books and
databases now available through the public-private Research4life
partnership to almost 30,000.
“Our goal with Research4Life is to provide and support quality research
in developing countries in order to advance higher education, inform
public policy decisions and ultimately improve quality of life,” said
Emily Gillingham, Director of Library Relations at Wiley who also serves
as the new Chair of the Executive Council for Research4Life. “We hope
the addition of this vast collection of Online Books will make a real
difference to researchers in countries which can least afford it and as
such is a central part of Wiley’s social responsibility program.”
“Through Research4Life we’ve been able to really level the playing field
in terms of access to primary research material in the developing
world,” said Kimberly Parker, HINARI Programme Manager at the World
Health Organization. “This is vital for supporting local authorship and
helping researchers in poorer countries to participate in and contribute
to the global scientific knowledge base.”
The Wiley Online Books Collection includes handbooks, dictionaries,
companions, encyclopedias and landmark book series from award-winning
authors and renowned researchers in the life, health and physical
sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Online Books are available
on Wiley Online Library and offer the benefits of unlimited concurrent
user access, cross-searching with journals, and no DRM restrictions.
Access to the majority of Wiley’s peer-reviewed journals, the
Cochrane Library, Current
Protocols and major reference works are already included in the
Research4Life programs.
“We are delighted to be able to add Wiley’s books to Research4Life for
access by researchers in eighty countries across Africa, Latin America,
and Asia,” said Antonia Seymour, VP and Director of Science, Technical,
Medical and Scholarly Books at Wiley. “Not only will they have access to
our 12,200 Online Books already digitized but we will also be adding the
100 or so new books published each month,” she added.
More Information:
Case studies about the impact of Research4life on scientists, doctors,
nurses and librarians can be found in the 2012, “Making
a Difference” booklet. Interviews with the Research4Life partners
and program managers are available upon request.
URL: http://www.research4life.org/competitionbook
About Reseach4Life:
Since 2001, the four programmes, Access to Research in Health (HINARI),
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Online Access
to Research in the Environment (OARE) and Access to Research for
Development and Innovation (ARDI), have grown and developed to the point
where they now give researchers at more than 6,000 institutions in over
100 developing world countries and territories free or low cost online
access to almost 30,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals,
books, and databases provided by the world's leading science publishers.
URL: www.research4life.org
Contact Reseach4Life:
Charlotte
Masiello-Riome
Research4Life Communications Coordinator
communications@research4life.org
About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of
information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people
around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley
and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450
Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or
Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.
Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow
solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly
research; professional development; and education. Our core businesses
produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals,
reference works, books, database services, and advertising; professional
books, subscription products, certification and training services and
online applications; and education content and services including
integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and
graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are
located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe,
Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.
The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols
JWa and JWb.
