Sam Vaknin, Global Differential Pricing, UPI, June 6. The World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the U.S.-based Global Health Council met in April to find ways to make "essential drugs" free or affordable to developing nations. Vaknin reports on their progress and draws an analogy to HINARI and other programs to make scientific journals free or affordable to developing nations.
PS: See Ann Okerson's list of initiatives to make scientific journals freely available in the developing world.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/07/2002 12:05:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
