SPIE to Offer Free Digital Library Access to Selected Countries
SPIE has announced an agreement with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to help meet the information needs of scientists in more than 30 countries that are rebuilding research capacity and infrastructure. SPIE will offer its journals and proceedings at low or no cost to INASP partner and network countries with low and lower middle income economies as identified by the World Bank. Researchers in eligible countries in Africa, Asia and South and Central America will be able to download full-text articles from the SPIE Digital Library, including articles from the society's scholarly publications. Eligible institutions include universities, libraries, nonprofit research institutes, teaching hospitals, and others identified by INASP. Access also will be available to health professionals, agricultural extension workers and other professionals with nonprofit status in those countries who are working in remote areas and within research institutes without formal collections, SPIE said. Each country is being offered trial library subscriptions through the end of 2007, and the opportunity to subscribe either for free or for a nominal cost beginning in 2008. The agreement is facilitated by the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information, which is operated by INASP. For more information, or to check a country's eligibility, visit: www.inasp.info
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Published: September 2007
Glossary
- nano
- An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
- photonics
- The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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