ARDI
ARDI was launched in 2009, an STM partnership with WIPO (UN World Intellectual Property Organization) to provide free or very low cost access to a range of core research technical journals and books to patent offices, higher education, and other not-for-profit institutions in more than 115 developing countries, where encouraging local innovation is a key element in the development of national economies.
Currently some 7800 journals and 21,000 books are available via ARDI to over 1000 registered institutions from the following publisher partners:-
Publisher partners
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Institute of Physics
- Cambridge University Press
- Canadian Science Publishing
- Elsevier
- Institute of Physics
- John Wiley & Sons
- Nature Publishing Group
- Oxford University Press
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR)
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Sage Publications
- Scientific and Academic Publishing
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Taylor & Francis
- The Company of Biologists