tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post1304239402664760883..comments2024-03-17T08:30:21.129+00:00Comments on Open and Shut?: Interview with Springer’s Derk HaankRichard Poynderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05433823131339077354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-74470072786743855282011-01-18T09:56:35.014+00:002011-01-18T09:56:35.014+00:00@ Barbara Kirsop - the Research4Life programme is ...@ Barbara Kirsop - the Research4Life programme is a collaborative approach by publishers and other organisations (including the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities) to solving the developing world access issue in a constructive manner: http://www.research4life.org/Ian Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-53191863043845954322011-01-15T12:45:41.383+00:002011-01-15T12:45:41.383+00:00For researchers in the developing world wanting to...For researchers in the developing world wanting to keep abreast of research progress, the statements made by Haank below show a complete lack of awareness of the reality. And this in turn demonstrates a lack of awareness of (or concern for) the consequences for scientific progress if the work in low income countries is weakened through lack of access. An international picture is critical for solving such global problems as malaria, climate change . . . the list goes on.<br /><br />'But today, we can't give libraries access to any more journals because they already have access to all they could ever want.'<br /><br />“The serials crisis refers to a situation that existed at the end of the 1990s. . ."<br /><br />". . . Most people who need access to research information are much better off today than they were 10 to 15 years ago."<br /><br />With the current economic environment, it is not only the poorer countries that will find these comments unrealistic.<br /><br />Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development.Electronic Publishing Trust for Developmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905041659887740199noreply@blogger.com