About 600
institutions in developing countries will benefit from the
joint effort that was announced in London in July by Dr. Gro
Harlem Brundtlandt, President of WHO. More than 1000 medical
and scientific journals will become available through the
internet to mainly medical schools, research institutions,
physicians and nursing personnel.
Springer-Verlag
is offering its LINK database via the WHO network. LINK
provides the contents of over 500 scientific and medical
journals, thus making medical research results, scientific
studies and specialist articles accessible through the
internet.
 Improve scientific progress in
developing countries
"The access to
information is the basis for all social and economic
development. In the course of the current discussion on the
improvement of scientific progress in developing countries,
carried on by the pharmaceutical industry for example, we as a
scientific publisher would like to make a contribution and
point the way to the future", explained Arnoud de Kemp,
deputy-member of the board of Springer-Verlag. Since the need
for teaching material is quite considerable, textbooks and
reference books will be made available in addition to the
medical and scientific journals.
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Apart from
Springer-Verlag, the publishing companies Blackwell, Elsevier
Science, Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer and John
Wiley are participating in the initiative. The WHO activities
are supported by the publishing group British Medical Journal along
with the Open Society Institute (OSI) in Budapest, a part of
the Soros Foundation Network. Scheduled to start in January
2002, the implementation of the project is currently being
worked
out.
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