The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University and leading science and technology publishers launched the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) initiative on 30 October 2006. For 70 low-income countries, free access is provided to over 1,200 environment related scientific journals, some of which cover applications of biotechnology in food and agriculture. Eligible institutions whose staff and students may have access to the journals are: universities and colleges, professional training schools, research institutes, Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources, government offices and agencies, academies of sciences, science libraries and indigenous non-governmental organisations. The initiative is built and managed in close partnership with the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), two similar initiatives launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and FAO for the medical and agricultural sciences respectively. See http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ (in English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

03/12/2006