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Open Access Archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries

www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess

Increasing access to the global library of research findings will be central to strengthening the science base in developing countries. Currently, this is made difficult by the high costs of journal subscriptions. With the advent of Open Access archiving the outlook for building science capacity in developing countries has improved significantly.

In a peer-reviewed paper published today by SciDev.Net, three of the world's leading open access experts, Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Subbiah Arunachalam, summarise the current state of play. In particular, they focus on the establishment of interoperable open access archives and their potential for true global knowledge exchange.

The paper is freely available on the SciDev.Net website as well as in downloadable pdf, MS Word and text files. www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess

The authors outline reasons why they consider that Open Access Archives (OAAs) offer the greatest and most immediate impact on science and development. It outlines the current status of science and technology in developing countries before reporting current progress in both developed and developing regions. Finally it recommends what needs to be done to achieve free access to all publicly-funded research publications.

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