Side Event

<a href='/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-12/summary-31-en.pdf'>OARE: A New Global Public Private Partnership Building the Scientific Capacity of 106 Developing Nations</a>

Organizer
Yale University

Date and Time
5 July 2007 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Twelfth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 12)

In an effort to help reduce great disparities in access to scientific knowledge between developed and developing nations, Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) is leveraging proven information and communication technologies, the recent digitization of vast quantities of proprietary scientific literature, and an international public-private partnership structure to make one of the world’s largest collections of peer-reviewed scientific research in the conservation sciences available online, for free or at nominal cost, to 106 low income nations (World Bank, '06) in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The OARE holdings, donated by 350 prestigious scientific institutions, have an annual retail subscription value of $1.6 million, and represent 70% of the world’s most influential and widely cited scientific publications. Learn more about OARE, how it is contributing to implementation of the CBD, and how organizations participate.