patient INFORM is a free online service that provides patients and their carers with access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable, and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases. In patientINFORM, consumers have the ability to not only read the latest research, but also to find help interpreting that information and accessing additional materials.

Sponsored and coordinated by STM, patientINFORM is a collaborative effort by voluntary health organizations, medical societies, health information professionals, and scholarly and medical publishers. In development since 2003, it was launched in July 2005. During 2006, other VHOs and publishers, both in the USA and internationally, will be invited to join the program.

By working with the VHOs’ patient information professionals, original research will be made accessible to patients in an appropriate context, making it easier to understand research findings. patientINFORM empowers healthcare consumers to have improved discussions with their physicians and make informed decisions about care.

www.patientinform.org

• International Association of STM Publishers

• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association

• American Association for the Advancement of Science *
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Cancer Society
• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association
• American Physiological Association
• American Roentgen Ray Society
• American Society of Hematology
• Annals of Internal Medicine (American College Of Physicians)
• Blackwell Publishing *
• BMJ Publishing Group Ltd *
• Elsevier *
• The Endocrine Society
• Massachusetts Medical Society
• Nature Publishing Group *
• Oxford University Press *
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Society of Nuclear Medicine
• Springer *
• Taylor and Francis *
• Thieme Publishing Group*
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. *
• Wolters Kluwer Health *

*Member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM)

• Association of American Publishers/ Professional and Scholarly Division
• CrossRef
• HighWire Press
• Welch Medical Library at The Johns Hopkins University

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to more than 3000 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. The program was initiated by publishers in response to a request made to them by the World Health Organization in 2001 to alleviate the information needs of researchers working in the poorest counties.

HINARI enables 113 developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. It provides not-for-profit research institutions, medical, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy schools, government health and economics ministries with free or very low cost online access to research journals, databases and other online resources.

The HINARI program was launched in 2002 by six STM member companies, Blackwell, Elsevier Science, Harcourt International STM Group, Springer Verlag, John Wiley and Wolters Kluwer International Health and Science, in partnership with the World Health Organizatiion. Since then, the programme has been joined by more than 70 international publishers, from 15 countries.

www.who.int/hinari/en/

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Association for the Advancement of Science *
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Physicians
• American Dental Education Association
• American Diabetes Association
• American Medical Association *
• American Physiological Society
• American Psychological Association *
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• American Society of Clinical Nutrition
• American Society for Investigative Pathology
• American Society of Clinical Oncology *
• American Society of Hematology
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Annual Reviews 
• Arnold
• Australian Medical Association
• Bioline International
• BioMedCentral
• BioOne
• Blackwell Publishing *
• BMJ Publishing Group *
• Botanical Society of America
• CABI Publishing
• Cambridge University Press *
• Canadian Medical Association
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Company of Biologists
• CSIRO Publishing *
• Duodecim EBM Guidelines (Finnish Medical Society)
• EBSCO Publishing *
• Elsevier Science *
• European Respiratory Society
• Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (UK)
• Health Affairs
• Hogrefe Publishing Group *
• Histochemical Society
• ICDDR,B Centre for Health & Population Research Bangladesh
• International Medical Press
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume)
• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume)
• Landes BioScience
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins *
• Maney Publishing
• Massachusetts Medical Society
• Medknow Publications
• Morion (Ukraine)
• National Academy of Sciences
• Nature Publishing Group *
• Oxford University Press *
• Pharmaceutical Press *
• Portland Press *
• Revista Colombia Medica
• Revista Cubana de Anestesiologia y Reanimacion
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Sage *
• SciELO
• Society for General Microbiology
• Society for the Study of Reproduction
• Taylor & Francis *
• Thieme Verlag *
• University of Chicago Press *
• Update Software (WHO Reproductive Health Library)
• John Wiley & Sons *
• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
• World Health Organization *

*Member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM)

• International Association of STM Publishers
• World Health Organization
• Yale University Library

• Cornell University Library (Mann Library)
• Department for International Development (UK)
• Eduserve – Athens
• Food and Agriculture Organization
• HighWire Press
• National Library of Medicine
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease (UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, WHO)

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

Following the initial success of HINARI in 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization requested that publishers of research in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related biological, social science and economic sciences allow access to appropriate journals for researchers in the developing world. AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) was launched by the Director General of the FAO and the Chair of STM in Rome, October 2003.

With technical coordination provided by the Mann Library at Cornell University, AGORA provides access to agricultural researchers, educators, students and policy makers working in not for profit institutions in 69 of the poorest countries without charge. During 2006, access will be provided to a further 53 countries for a nominal fee of $1000 per annum, in line with the HINARI programme. As in HINARI, all revenues collected will be remitted by the publishers to FAO and WHO for user training and outreach activities.

www.aginternetwork.org/en

• American Association for the Advancement of Science *
• American Fisheries Society
• American Physiological Society
• American Society for Clinical Nutrition
• American Society of Plant Biologists
• Annual Reviews *
• BioOne
• Blackwell Publishing *
• BMJ Publishing Group *
• Botanical Society of America
• CABI Publishing
• Cambridge University Press *
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• CSIRO Publishing *
• Elsevier *
• John Libbey Eurotext
• Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins *
• Massachusetts Medical Society
• MIT Press
• National Academy of Sciences
• Nature Publishing Group *
• Oxford University Press *
  
• Rockefeller University Press
• SciELO
• Society for General Microbiology
• Society for the Study of Reproduction
• Springer *
• Taylor & Francis *
• John Wiley & Sons *

*Member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)

• Food and Agriculture Organization
• International Association of STM Publishers
• Mann Library, Cornell University
• Collaborative Partners
• Department for International Development (UK)
• Eduserve – Athens
• HighWire Press
• Rockefeller Foundation
• World Health Organization
• Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease (UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, WHO)

Online Access to Research in the Environment

What is Oare? 
Through Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), a new global public-private consortium, prestigious scientific publishing houses, societies and associations are offering one of the world's largest collections of environmental science literature to public and non-profit environmental institutions in more than 100 least-developed nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Partners
OARE is coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University in association with the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, leading science and technology publishing houses, and 200 of the world's most prestigious scientific societies and associations. Support is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OARE is built and managed in close partnership with HINARI, a program launched by the World Health Organization providing research to the medical community in developing countries, and AGORA, a program launched by the Food and Agriculture Association and Cornell University providing research to the agricultural community.  

Oare Content
OARE provides research in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, botany, climate change, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, urban planning, zoology, and many others. OARE also provides access to important Abstract and Indexing Research Databases (A&I Databases), intellectual tools the scientific and professional community uses to search for specific information within thousands of scholarly publications. 

http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

Publisher Partners
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) *
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Physiological Society
Annual Reviews
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Bioline International
BioMedCentral
Blackwell Publishing *
BMJ Publishing Group *
Botanical Society of America
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Cambridge University Press *
CSIRO Publishing *
Company of Biologists
EBSCO Publishing
Ecological Society of America
Elsevier Science *
Institute of Physics *
John Wiley & Sons *
Johns Hopkins University Press
Landes Bioscience
MedKnow Publishers
National Academy of Sciences, The
National Research Council Canada *
Nature Publishing Group *
Oxford University Press *
Public Library of Science
Royal Society of Chemistry *
Sage *
Springer Science + Business Media B.V.*
Taylor & Francis *
Thomson Scientific *
University of Chicago Press *
Vathek Publishing 

*Member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers