PRESS RELEASE

Leonardo now available through EBSCO databases to Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa

To: Leonardo Members
From: Roger Malina

As you know Leonardo issues are now available on line through a number of services (contact us if you don't have a password)

Through a new arrangement Leonardo will be available on line through a special program for Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Please bring this to the attention of your African and Central American colleagues. If they have trouble accessing this service please ask them to contact us at leo@mitpress.mit.edu

Here are more details:

IPSWICH, Mass. - September 7, 2001 - The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has completed the first phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). This important initiative is designed to provide wider access to and dissemination of scientific and scholarly information and knowledge to and from developing and transitional countries. By offering four of the world's largest scholarly full text databases, additional general and subject-specific full text databases, as well as popular bibliographic databases, EBSCO Publishing is playing a large role in ensuring that the goals of INASP and their partners are met.

The first phase of this programme will benefit researchers and appropriately affiliated professionals in several countries including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and will also include a wider range of countries in Africa, Asia and Central America by the end of 2001. All researchers, academics, scholars, affiliated professionals and librarians in these countries will gain access to thousands of full text, scholarly journals via the EBSCOhost databases - Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and Health Source: Consumer Edition, among others. These databases offer 24-hour online access to many of the most prestigious journals in nearly all subjects of scholarly research, and will also be available to the partners via CD ROM (or DVD ROM).

Paul Donovan, EBSCO's Director of Sales for Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, said, "We're excited to be part of such an innovative programme. The countries involved initially are among those that work with INASP in its partnerships with universities, research institutes, and development support programmes such as ENRECA (Danida) and Sida: SAREC, and will benefit greatly." Donovan continued, "We are proud to add value (through our databases) to this inspiring initiative, and look forward to our part in seeing the goals of INASP to fruition."

Visit the INASP Web Site at: http://www.inasp.org.uk/

EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Subscription Services form the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO provides integrated information resources and management solutions worldwide through print and electronic journal subscription services, reference database development and production, online multi-database access, and e-commerce book procurement. EBSCO upholds relationships with 49,000 publishers and maintains a database of more than 260,000 title listings. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at http://www.ebsco.com

Editorial Note: MIT Press has arranged for Leonardo to be part of this program. If your colleagues have trouble using this, have them send email to leo@mitpress.mit.edu